Mau used traditional skills to guide a canoe from Hawaiʻi to Tahiti, sharing his navigational knowledge with others to keep the wayfinding traditions alive.

The haute beachwear known as the bikini was named after a string of islands turned into a nuclear wasteland by atomic bomb testing.

Hawaii has been a state for 57 years, but its history goes back much further. 

For 40,000 years, human remnants remained buried in the sand at Lake Mungo, hidden by the changed landscape.