Genetic study shows seafarers from Easter Island settled Hawaii

It was a difficult, almost incomprehensible, feat. A band of seafarers from Easter Island in the South Pacific set off in double-hulled sailing canoes on a voyage across Earth’s largest ocean that ended more than 4,400 miles away in Hawaii, the only Polynesian island in the Northern Hemisphere.

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