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During the pre-colonial and early colonial period of Australia’s history c.1780–1907, monsoon traders from the eastern part of Indonesia sailed to parts of Australia’s northern coast searching for marine products such as trepang for the Chinese…

Ratifications of the 2001 UCH Convention by Pacific States has been poor. Using Solomon Islands and the Marshall Islands
as case studies, this paper begins by considering the utility of the 2001 UCH Convention for these States before turning to…

From the time that whaleships first rounded Cape Horn at the end of the eighteenth century, the activities of European and American whalers transformed the landscape and seascape of the Pacific region. While systematic hunting had a profound effect…

Nagappattinam, a famous sea port of the imperial Cholas, is presently the headquarters of a District in Tamil Nadu, India. During the medieval Period, under the imperial Cholas, this port city played a vital role politically, commercially and…

The creation of the National Shipwreck Database of Sri Lanka (NSDSL) was initiated by the Maritime Archaeology Unit (MAU) to address the fragmented state of data collected from various shipwreck sites around the country. Established in 2001 in Galle…

In the Americas, long before the Conquest, existed various native navigation techniques (coastal, lacustrine and fluvial), aboard numerous and diversified wooden boats. Among these, stands one that was made by carving a tree trunk: the dugout canoe.…

This poster examines boats as depicted in bas reliefs in the Bayon temple that represent the everyday life of the Khmer empire during the 12th century.

Click here to see the poster: http://www.uri.edu/artsci/his/mua/posters/Angkor_Boats.pdf