thumb|The Nur Al Marege, a modern replica of a padewakang, sailed from Makassar to the north coast of Australia in 2019. thumb|A two-masted padewakang, 1880–1890. Padewakangs were traditional boats used by the Bugis, Mandar, and Makassar people of South Sulawesi. Padewakangs were used for long-distance voyages serving the south Sulawesi kingdoms.
thumb|The Nur Al Marege, a modern replica of a padewakang, sailed from Makassar to the north coast of Australia in 2019. thumb|A two-masted padewakang, 1880–1890. Padewakangs were traditional boats used by the Bugis, Mandar, and Makassar people of South Sulawesi. Padewakangs were used for long-distance voyages serving the south Sulawesi kingdoms.
== Etymology == The origin of the name is unknown, though some have suggested that it stems from Dewakang Island, an important navigational landmark between Sulawesi and Java. Dutch records from the 1735 mention letters from Sulawesi arriving in Batavia 'per praauw Paduackang'.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).