Where No Boat Could Live

1. Where is Chatham Island, and what is the weather like there?

The Chatham Islands are part of the Roaring forties the weather is very unpredictable, there are strong winds and frequent storms.

2. Who were the first people to arrive there? How did they get there?

The Moriori People.

3. How did the Moriori live? Give some example of what they did to survive?

The Moriori People would go fishing in
| big groups and travel as far as 40 kilometers or even further (to find the the albatross tribes).

4. What is a wash - through wake? What was it used for?

A wash through waka is a waka that could carry heavy loads and a large number of people.

5. Why were the waka korari and the waka paging so special?

Both the waka korari and the waka pahi were perfectly suited to the local conditions, even though visiting European sailors thought the smaller waka like wheelbarrows.

6. What do the words ballast and capsize mean?

ballast definition = Give stability to (a ship) by putting a heavy substance in its bilge

capsize definition = (of a boat) Overturn in the water: "the craft capsized in heavy seas"; "gale-force gusts capsized the dinghies".

7. Please give a brief summary of the article.

Where No Boat Could Live is about the Moriori people how they went to the Chatham Islands and how they survived.

8. Why were the Moriori considered backward?

I consider the Moriori people very smart because they were making very difficult boats, and they survived in that Chatham Islands most people wouldn’t dare go there.

9. What do you think about the skills and designs of the Moriori and why? Please upload questions 7,8,& 9 to your blog with a picture to support your ideas.

I think the skills and the designs were made perfectly. I like the way the boats looked. They were very smart how they found their food.