What does Malama Honua mean in Hawaiian?
to care for our Island Earth
Mālama honua is a Hawaiian concept that means to care for our Island Earth. Our Hawaiian voyaging canoes, Hōkūle’a and Hikianalia, are on a journey around the world to learn, create global relationships, and explore how to care for our oceans and Island Earth.
What does Malama hunua mean?
Mālama Honua is simply translated as “to care for our Island Earth”, but the Hawaiian language is beautiful and complex. Mālama Honua means to take care of and protect everything that makes up our world: land, oceans, living beings, our cultures, and our communities.
What is the Malama Honua challenge?
Mālama Honua Challenge The focus of our Worldwide Voyage is to care for Island Earth. We sail our voyaging canoe Hōkūleʻa using the stars, sun, and swell to guide us around the world, relying on signs from nature and ancient wisdom to guide us to each destination.
What is the purpose of the Malama Honua voyage?
Mālama Honua is a journey of transformation and self-discovery that aims to inspire communities everywhere to rethink and engage. While this worldwide voyage has ended, the Educational Wa’a sail on.
Why is the voyaging canoe Hokulea a powerful symbol for Hawaiians?
The canoes that brought the first Hawaiians to their island home had disappeared from earth. She is more than a voyaging canoe—she represents the common desire shared by the people of Hawaii, the Pacific, and the World to protect our most cherished values and places from disappearing.
What is the Hokulea?
In Hawaiian, the name Hokulea refers to Arcturus, one of the guiding stars for Hawaiian navigators, which passes directly over Hawaii’s latitude, helping guide sailors to the island chain.
How do you say Hokulea?
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What star is Hokulea?
Hokule’a is known as Hawai’i’s Zenith Star. About midway between Hokule’a and Hanaiakamalama, the Cross, is Hikianalia (Spica) and directly below it is in the box of Me’e (Corvus). Below the horizon, having completely set, is the star line of Ke Ka o Makali’i.
What is the Malama Honua worldwide voyage?
The mission of the Mālama Honua Worldwide Voyage is to navigate toward a healthy and sustainable. future for ourselves, our home – the Hawaiian Islands – and our Island Earth through voyaging and new ways of learning.
What wood is the Hokulea made of?
Measuring at 61 feet and five inches and weighing in at 16,000 pounds, the Hokulea is constructed out of plywood, fiberglass and resin. The vessel, also known as waa kaulua (double hulled voyaging canoe in Hawaiian) is guided at sea by her twin masts and long paddle.
Where is Hokulea now?
After completing worldwide voyage, Hokulea is now headed on a new adventure. HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – It was a bittersweet morning for the crew of the Hokulea as the Polynesian voyaging canoe returned to Waikiki, ending the final chapter of the Malama Honua worldwide voyage.
Who built Hokulea?
historian Herb Kawainui Kane
The original Hokulea was designed by Hawaiian artist and historian Herb Kawainui Kane, one of the original founders of the Polynesian Voyaging Society, who named the Hokulea, after the star, which appeared in his dream one night.