'Moana' Making Waves Around Globe

Disney’s latest animated movie, Moana, is riding a wave of popularity around the globe. It’s inspired by the folklore of the Pacific Islands. Scholars say for centuries, some of the ancient world's greatest navigators explored and settled the many islands of Oceania. But about 3,000 years ago, those voyages stopped for about a thousand years – and no one knows why. That’s where Moana, which means ocean in many Polynesian languages, begins… It tells the story of Moana, a young girl...

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