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A short scan of Māori journeys to Antarctica
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- perihelions 5y agoThat was a bit of a bait-and-switch: there's essentially no information about pre-modern Māori or Polynesian journeys to Antarctica. I've found the open-source text of the fragment of the oral story that was mentioned (recorded by a British historian in 1899). The fragment excerpted is in Ch. 7 of the wikisource version. Note that Wikipedia strongly warns that this historian is an unreliable source. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Hawaiki_The_Original_Home_of_the_Maori https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Hawaiki_The_Original_Home_of_... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Smith_(ethnologist) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Smith_(ethnologist) ("...he was more uncritical and framed hypotheses on what now seems slender linguistic and traditional evidence"; "...it is now generally accepted that much of his work on the Maori is unreliable")