How did ancient Polynesians first find all the remote Pacific islands? Did they just sail in random directions hoping to find land?

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Hi Everyone,

This post is popular and that is wonderful. I want to encourage everyone joining us from r/all (and everyone else) to please take a look through the rules before participating, we are unfortunately a bit of a strict sub.

In particular rule 3: Top level comments must be written explanations. There are excellent books, articles, and documentaries on this topic, it is *not* a sufficient answer to just tell OP to go check one of those out. You can include a suggestion to do so with an original explanation of the topic in the title, but the meat of your explanation needs to be your own.

Please let me know if you have any questions and otherwise enjoy.

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