A ballistic missile equipped with a hypersonic target vehicle is air-launched from a military transport aircraft off the coast of Hawaii during a hypersonic missile defense test on March 24, 2025.

From 1693 on, more than 2,000 ships from European and colonial empires of trade and settlement came to grief along this shoreline, which came to be known to colonizers as “The Graveyard of the Pacific ...

From the Graveyard of the Pacific to the paradise of the Polynesian Islands, this is the true story of a journey with the real people, the real places, and the adventures that inevitably follow.” ...

Today it's a roadside historic site and the river's mouth and adjacent coast has long been known by sea fares as the graveyard of the Pacific. Why all the gloom explorers looked for a great river ...

“The law of the sea basically colonized [Pacific peoples’] ocean,” said Frank Murphy, a resident of French Polynesia who ...

He was just learning about how Pacific peoples had navigated the ocean, guided by constellations, to find their islands. Hōkūleʻa was the first double-hulled voyaging canoe he had seen ...

“The soul of our ancestors, when they leave this world, they go into the deep.” ...

The tires, averaging about 190 pounds, were floated to the surface with lift bags and then hauled out of the water by a crane attached to the vessel of Blue Ocean Mariculture, a commercial fishing ...

Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific.” Enjoy a reception with appetizers and a cash bar. $20 members, $30 public.