Mystery behind Moana: After 1,700 years, why did Polynesians suddenly sail east?

ohyoutravel

This was covered in the movie.

goda90

This talks about climate impacting the population, but it made me wonder if herd immunity to disease in an isolated population could cause population limiting diseases to go extinct after awhile.

clickety_clack

Why does anyone do anything? Some people obviously just got really into the idea of sailing to the islands. Right now there are people in the world that are super into the idea of going to Mars. There’s no reason why anyone has to do it, but they’re into the idea of it and they’ll find whatever rationale they need to explain the desire.

yzydserd

An increase in the supply of boat snacks?

dostick

Same reason as everything - looking for women

dosisking

TLDR; There was a guy who sailed west. Other people didn't like that guy, so they sailed the opposite way.

ezconnect

They are probably trying but only succeeded after many failures and fix the food supply of a long sea journey, navigation and mapping of the sea.