Comments by "Taine Donovan" (@tainedonovan4983) on "ABC News (Australia)" channel.

  1. A similar natural event highly likely happened to Hawaiki. Can't be found on a map yet my ancestors voyaged to Aotearoa from there.
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  2. No that was a bold claim that was made in 2005 based on a genetic study that confirmed through genetics that approximately 5000 years ago the ancestors of Māori were closely related to indigenous Taiwanese people and therefore the descendants of both are distant cousins..it didn't have any actual evidence to conclude Taiwan "is" Hawaiki which is why it is simply a bold claim..what the study did prove was that the ancestors of modern day Polynesians including Māori migrated to Hawaiki from the Taiwan area approximately 2 and half thousands years ago. The exact location of Hawaiki has never been officially identified and confirmed, however oral history suggests the location is most likely somewhere in the vicinity of what is known today as French Polynesia but it still hasn't been found....even in the modern world. Which points to the logic behind the occurrence of a probable natural event sometime after the voyages to Aotearoa 600-700 years ago.
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  3. It is agreed that Taiwan is definitely the original location of the world that the ancestors of Polynesians came from however that migration happened at least two and a half thousand years prior to the ancestors of Māori (my ancestors ) voyaging in Waka to Aotearoa, the voyages of my ancestors happened within the last thousand years approximately 600-700 years ago where they came from Hawaiki... they were descendants of those who came from what is now known as Taiwan. Taiwan has a written history of people from china having contact with Taiwan indigenous by the time of the Yuan Dynasty (1271–1368) which is a time frame in which a number of my ancestors hadn't left Hawaiki yet. there is no oral history of them having contact with the Chinese and no written history in China of the Chinese having contact with them...all of the above indicates that Hawaiki and Taiwan are two different places. Both of our ancestors voyaged across the Pacific and reached an island somewhere in what is now known as French Polynesia that they called Hawaiki, they math works out that they lived there for many many many generations before tribal wars broke out which lead to another great migration across the Pacific. With more studies and evidence to back it up I would get behind and agree with the Possibility that IF Hawaiki still exists it could be what is now known as Taihiti as its in French Polynesia, Hawaiki is also sometimes associated with the Tahitian island Ra‘iātea (Rangiātea, in Māori) Hawaiki and Taihiti could be the the same place. However If it doesn't exist anymore it has to be the result of a natural event.
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