> Hawaii is 1313 miles from Midway Island Close-up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papahānaumokuākea_Marine_National_Monument#/media/File:Map_PMNM_2016.jpg htt

> Hawaii is 1313 miles from Midway Island Close-up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papahānaumokuākea_Marine_National_Monument#/media/File:Map_PMNM_2016.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papahānaumokuākea_Marine_Natio... Clearly easy to navigate due to many small islands / reefs. > The closest useful island to New Zealand is the Raoul Island in the Kermadecs (which was settled by Polynesians from New Zealand). 980 Km distance or so, less than e.g. Iceland from the rest of Europe. Where is the mystery? What I'd like to know is how these atolls and islands looked a few 1000 years ago, with lower sea levels (what is the rough estimate, 3 meters per millennium?).