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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I believe in New Zealand’s case, it was likely to be the birds. Migrating birds flew over a land mass yearly (forget which), and someone noticed them flying in our direction and figured out there had to be a more land down there.

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