Lapita Voyage Arrival in Anuta

The Lapita Voyage was a charitable project which began in the first week of November 2008, when 2 double canoes, based on the ancient Polynesian canoe form of the islands of Anuta and Tikopia, set out on a 4,000Nm voyage along the island chains of the Philippines, Indonesia, New Guinea to finally arrive in Anuta and Tikopia, two tiny, remote islands at the Eastern end of the Solomons, where the boats were donated to the islanders for future inter island voyaging. They followed the Lapita Pottery trail that archaeologists believe to be the route of the Polynesian migrations.

This video shows the final stage of the voyage on the double canoe 'Lapita Anuta' featuring her arrival on 16th March 2009 at the 1Nm long island of Anuta to an exuberant welcome by the island's population. 300 people live on Anuta and they own 70 traditional dug-out sailing canoes, which are still regularly used for fishing. A nearly 200 year old Anutan canoe is featured in the closing scenes of the video.

'Lapita Anuta' is now the island's Voyaging Canoe, so the people can travel independently to more distant islands. Her sistership Lapita Tikopia arrived in Tikopia on 15th March to a similar welcome.

This video was shot and edited by Hanneke Boon of James Wharram Designs, captain of 'Lapita Anuta'.

A 50 minute DVD of the whole Lapita Voyage is available at www.wharram.com

For more information about this project, visit:
www.lapita-voyage.org
www.tikopia.org
www.wharram.com

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• Wharram
• Lapita
• voyage
• catamaran
• sailing
• Polynesians
• Anuta
• Tikopia
• migrations
• double
• canoe
• Pacific
• Temotu
• Solomons

[cubanboy740]

i LOVE Pasific islanders the best thing we can do for them is let them live there culture.

[TrueGreatness73]

@guitashamilele whatever blows your bean pie

[guitashamilele]

@TrueGreatness73 you mean straight missionaries erased old culture & customs, right?

[Mrbeautiez]

Beautiful people

[ricardosanalp1]

precioso un paraiso en la tierra sin dudar alguna

[GuamKomudo]

This was the most epic thing I've ever seen in my life...

[TrueGreatness73]

gay missionaries erased old culture & customs

[tortoise1lover]

do beleve me iv just had a family reunion and my couson said about haveing a catermaran sailed arround the world nd james wharran is my cousion 2wice removed

xxx love you james

[tuhuamaid]

James, your life is monumental and I honour and thank you.

I trust you are OK and your knees attended to.

I now sail my Hinemoa 23, "Waka Rua". She was "Surfari" owned by Phil and Susan Smith, Mt Maunganui NZ.

[tuhuamaid]

Kapai! Fantastic. Well done everybody. Having owned, sailed, believed in and loved Wharrams since 1982 I find this footage wonderful and very emotional. My family and I dined on Gaia in 1996 in Vila with James, Haneke, Ruth, Jamie and Freya when they had just arrived back from their first Tikopian voyage, still daubed in Tumeric. We were anchored in Vila on Ika Roa, our 42 foot Narai.

Arohanui, Wendy Palmer