a. It appears incorrectly here because of browser support limitations.}} Hōkūlea's a performance-accurate full-scale replica of a waa kaulua, a Polynesian double-hulled canoe. Launched on 8 March 1975 without modern navigational instruments. The primary goal of the voyage was to further support the anthropological theory of the Asiatic origin of native Oceanic people (Oceania maps:, ), of Polynesians and Hawaiians in particular, as the result of purposeful trips through the Pacific, a… (More on Hokulea)