1 MAGIC ISLAND, Hawaii (June 17, 2017) The traditional Polynesian voyaging canoe, Hōkūle‘a, returns to Hawaii after an around-the-world journey. For the last three years, crewmembers relied only on their understanding of nature's cues: ocean swells, stars, the wind, and birds to navigate across roughly 47,000 nautical miles, to 85 ports and 26 nations, spreading a message of "malama honua": Caring for the earth.

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