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# Were Maori Really Great Navigators?
- URL: https://goodoil.news/best-of-the-week-mountainsidefm-88-3-template-do-not-use-make-a-copy/
- Published: 2022-06-03T19:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-06-02T21:41:39.000Z
- Author: Cam Slater
- Tags: Media, NZ, NZ Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-16 23:04

How believableis the story of Maori leaving their country of origin Hawaiki and using the stars as a navigational guide to take them to New Zealand? If they were great navigators then why did they never navigate back to their home country?

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