The trading canoe of Tevake of Nufilole, Santa Cruz Islands, one of the last South Pacific navigators who still had all the traditional scientific knowledge. Tevake sailed his canoe regularly on voyages of up to 320 nautical miles (600 km) across the open ocean from Vanuatu to the Solomon Islands. The photo was taken for the National Geographic Society (1973) before the early 1960s.
Young South Pacific islanders have taken up the challenge of traditional navigation again, and South Pacific navigation is again taught in the Carolines. Using traditional navigation this transport canoe sailed from Truk in the Federated States of Micronesia to Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea in 1980 to participate in the South Pacific Festival of Arts.
National Geographic Society (1973) Men, Ships and the Sea. Washington.