hi! you may be interested in a few earlier posts

• How was Easter Island a remote place on Earth discovered by ancient people with rudimentary technology?

• How did ancient seafaring peoples of Melanesia find remote islands like Easter Island, yet miss the Americas?

• Just how did the Polynesian people(s) manage to traverse the oceans so well?

• Polynesian diaspora

• How did the Polynesian people travel such long distances in canoes, how did they survive such long travels? How did they know where they were going?

• Were naval explorers (Polynesians, Vikings, Spanish) concerned that they would sail forever without hitting land or did they plan to turn back after a certain amount of time? Did they re-supply while sailing (fishing, collecting rain water)?

and Hawai'i

• How did the original Native Hawaiians find Hawaii in the first place?

• in 1414 would the Hawaiians have been aware of the existence of either Asia or America?

of possible tangential interest: inter-island contact

• What do we know about histories of connections between Indigenous peoples of the Pacific world?

• How much contact would Polynesian islands have with each other?

• Did people living in Polynesia (and other Pacific isles) know about people on other islands, or were they largely cut off from each other?

• How isolated were most Polynesian islands?