For thousands of years the Pacific people have journeyed across the vast Pacific allowing them to become master navigators, discoverers, and fishermen.

In Kiribati, the canoe, or Te Wa as it is known, has been their link to the ocean and has also connected them as a people of the seas.

Te Wa is more than just a canoe —it is a significant piece of architecture with a remarkable history.

With 33 individual islands making up the nation of Kiribati, Te Wa is a necessary apparatus to fish, travel, communicate and share supplies between each island.

Living remotely on coral atolls in the Pacific makes travelling between neighbouring islands necessary as it has been for thousands of years. However, with only natural materials found on the islands, Te Wa was always going to be a resourceful and imaginative vessel, engineered to travel with speed and grace.

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