Outrigger

. . . At the same time (about 5000 years ago) they spread from Taiwan they probably invented outriggers canoes, boats with logs propped on the side that increase their stability in rough water, making it possible to navigate the open seas. After thirty three hundred ago, ancient people making pottery in a style called Lapita appeared just to the east of New Guinea and soon afterward started expanding farther into the Pacific, quickly reaching Vanuatu three thousand kilometers from New Guinea. It took only a few hundred more years for them to spread through the western Polynesian islands including Toga and Samoa, and then, after long pause lasting until around twelve hundred years ago, they spread to the last habitable Pacific islands of New Zealand, Hawaii, and Easter Island by eight hundred years ago…. Page 200 "Who we are and How we got here" ~ Author David Reich


{It is believed that the Hawaiian Islands were uninhabited until around 400 – 500 A.D., when the Polynesians arrived. ... Many historians believe that the Polynesians who settled Hawaii came from the Marquesas Islands, which had forbidding terrain and poor conditions for farming.}