Editing History of Antarctica (section)

===Polynesian Travel Claims===
[[File:TonganCanoes.jpg|thumb|Tongan canoes, with sails and cabins, and two Tongan men paddling a smaller canoe from "Boats of the Friendly Isles" a record of Cook's visit to Tonga, 1773-4]]
Some authors have suggested that a figure in [[Polynesians]] oral tradition from [[Rarotonga]], [[Ui-te-Rangiora|Hui Te Rangiora]] (also known as 'Ui Te Rangiora) and his crew explored Antarctic waters in the early seventh century on the vessel ''Te Ivi o Atea''.<ref name="Wehi-2021">{{cite journal |doi=10.1080/03036758.2021.1917633 |title=A short scan of Māori journeys to Antarctica |journal=Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand|volume= 52|pages= 1–12|year=2021 |last1=Wehi|first1=Priscilla M. |author-link1=Priscilla Wehi|last2=Scott|first2=Nigel J. |last3=Beckwith|first3=Jacinta |last4=Pryor Rodgers|first4=Rata |last5=Gillies|first5=Tasman |last6=Van Uitregt|first6=Vincent |last7=Krushil|first7=Watene|issue=5 |doi-access=free|pmc=11485871}}</ref> Accounts name the area "Te tai-uka-a-pia", which literally means 'powdered [[Tacca leontopetaloides|pia]]', but in some interpretations it may refer to snow or ice due to the lack of a word for these phenomena in [[Polynesian languages]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.livescience.com/indigenous-people-discovered-antarctica.html|title=Antarctica was likely discovered 1 100 years before Westerners 'found' it|publisher=Live Science|author=Laura Geggel|language=English|date=15 June 2021|accessdate=28 December 2021|archive-date=27 December 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211227203654/https://www.livescience.com/indigenous-people-discovered-antarctica.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Wehi-2021" /><ref name=Smith>{{cite book |last=Smith |first=Stephenson Percy |author-link=Percy Smith (ethnologist) |title=Hawaiki: the whence of the Maori, being an introduction to Rarotongan history: Part III |url=http://www.jps.auckland.ac.nz/document/Volume_8_1899/Volume_8%2C_No._1%2C_March_1899/Hawaiki%3A_the_whence_of_the_Maori%2C_being_an_introduction_to_Rarotongan_history%3A_Part_III%2C_by_S._Percy_Smith%2C_p_1-48/p1 |access-date=2019-11-21 |year=1899 |publisher=The Journal of the Polynesian Society, Volume 8 |pages=10–11 |archive-date=2020-02-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200201220057/http://www.jps.auckland.ac.nz/document//Volume_8_1899/Volume_8%2C_No._1%2C_March_1899/Hawaiki%3A_the_whence_of_the_Maori%2C_being_an_introduction_to_Rarotongan_history%3A_Part_III%2C_by_S._Percy_Smith%2C_p_1-48/p1 |url-status=live }}</ref> However, this interpretation of the original account is disputed by [[Te Rangi Hīroa]] (Sir Peter Henry Buck) who lists evidence for his belief that 'later historians embellished the tales by adding details learned from European whalers and teachers'.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hīroa |first1=Te Rangi |title=Vikings of the Sunrise |date=1964 |publisher=Whitcombe and Tombs Limited |pages=116–117 |url=http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-BucViki-t1-body-d1-d9.html |access-date=2021-09-07 |archive-date=2021-09-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210902020343/http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-BucViki-t1-body-d1-d9.html |url-status=live }}</ref> This interpretation of oral history and the probability of such a voyage have likewise been dismissed more recently by [[Ngāi Tahu]] scholars, who agree that 'it is very unlikely that Māori or other Polynesian voyaging reached the Antarctic'.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Anderson |first1=A |title=On the improbability of pre-European Polynesian voyages to Antarctica: a response to Priscilla Wehi and colleagues |journal=Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand |date=2021 |volume=52 |issue=5 |pages=599–605 |doi=10.1080/03036758.2021.1973517 |s2cid=239089356 |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03036758.2021.1973517 |access-date=2021-12-26 |archive-date=2021-10-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211017231618/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03036758.2021.1973517 |url-status=live |pmc=11485678 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Anderson |first1=A |title=A southern Māori perspective on stories of Polynesian polar voyaging |journal=Polar Record |date=2021 |volume=57 |doi=10.1017/S0032247421000693 |bibcode=2021PoRec..57E..42A |s2cid=244118774 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/polar-record/article/southern-maori-perspective-on-stories-of-polynesian-polar-voyaging/CD692ED61C1DAB8F33653C6FCFDDE366 |access-date=2021-12-26 |archive-date=2021-12-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211226030336/https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/polar-record/article/southern-maori-perspective-on-stories-of-polynesian-polar-voyaging/CD692ED61C1DAB8F33653C6FCFDDE366 |url-status=live }}</ref>