June
14
/ 2021
A new historical analysis has called into question the accepted story about the discovery of Antarctica. The continent was supposedly first seen by Russian and British explorers in the early 19th century. But a research study recently published in the Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand presents evidence to show that Polynesian Maori sailors reached the waters surrounding Antarctica much earlier, nearly 1,200 years earlier, to be exact. The Discovery of Antarctica Based On Hui Te Rangiora’s Feats For the purposes of this research project, scientists from the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand studied the oral histories, literature, relief carvings, and other relics of the Māori, the Polynesian indigenous people who’ve been living in New Zealand
