In 2020, when the park was closed to visitors, Todd Labrador and his daughter Melissa built a 6.4-metre-long canoe (shown here) designed to paddle through ocean waters.

"The birchbark canoe is such a powerful symbol, ... Over the past 15 years, she has reported from the edge of the Arctic Ocean to the Atlantic Coast and loves sharing people's stories.

Researchers recreated a 30,000-year-old ocean journey from Taiwan to Japan using canoes and simulations to test early human ...

Our species arose in Africa roughly 300,000 years ago and later trekked worldwide, eventually reaching some of Earth's most ...

Dan Blessing and Marc VanGrinsven's 4,000 mile journey from Lake Superior to the Pacific Ocean in a homemade birch-bark canoe.

The Polynesian voyaging canoe Hokulea completed the last leg of a historic three-year, round-the-world voyage on Saturday, raising insights about the relevance of the past to the future of Polynesian ...

DeFoe paddled his first birch-bark canoe as far as he could down the Mississippi River before winter closed up the water in front of him. That was back in 1976, when he was 18.DeFoe is working on ...

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