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How did Polynesian wayfinders navigate the Pacific Ocean?
Posted on 11/15/21 at 3:24 pm
Posted on 11/15/21 at 3:24 pm
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Meanwhile Columbus lands at America...."India!!!"
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Imagine setting sail from Hawaii in a canoe. Your target is a small island thousands of kilometers away in the middle of the Pacific Ocean — a body of water that covers more than 160 million square kilometers. For thousands of years, Polynesian navigators managed voyages like this without the help of modern navigational aids. How did they do it? Alan Tamayose and Shantell De Silva explain.
Meanwhile Columbus lands at America...."India!!!"
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Posted on 11/15/21 at 3:26 pm to Street Hawk
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How did Polynesian wayfinders navigate the Pacific Ocean?
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How did they do it? Alan Tamayose and Shantell De Silva explain.
Why the hell are you asking us? Ask Alan and Shantell.
Posted on 11/15/21 at 3:26 pm to Street Hawk
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How did Polynesian wayfinders navigate the Pacific Ocean?
Posted on 11/15/21 at 3:27 pm to Street Hawk
All the answers you need are in Moana
Posted on 11/15/21 at 3:28 pm to Street Hawk
Let me take a wild gander here... something with stars.
Posted on 11/15/21 at 3:30 pm to Street Hawk
I don't have time to watch a video, but people should read On the Roads of the Wind, which is a great introduction to the archeological history of the Pacific. The Polynesian expansion is just an amazing story, with a very interesting subset of physiologic and anatomic adaptations.
Posted on 11/15/21 at 3:30 pm to Street Hawk
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Imagine setting sail from Hawaii in a canoe. Your target is a small island thousands of kilometers away in the middle of the Pacific Ocean — a body of water that covers more than 160 million square kilometers.
That's not the way it happened.
Posted on 11/15/21 at 3:30 pm to GetBackToWork
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Let me take a wild gander here... something with stars.
OP probably gets lost if the GPS on his phone can’t tell him where he is.
Posted on 11/15/21 at 3:31 pm to Street Hawk
quote:Ask Moar Kilometers?
the Pacific Ocean — a body of water that covers more than 160 million square kilometers.
Posted on 11/15/21 at 3:32 pm to Street Hawk
Sticks and stars
Posted on 11/15/21 at 3:32 pm to TheArrogantCorndog
crystals
Posted on 11/15/21 at 3:33 pm to Street Hawk
If the water is warm, you’re going the right way
Posted on 11/15/21 at 3:34 pm to Street Hawk
The pillars of Thor Heyerdahl's career were trying to show that trade routes could've existed from Egypt to South America to Polynesia.
That's what KonTiki is about.
There are also theories that one can infer large ripple tides which they claim refract from large islands and can be seen with a trained eye.
probably more useful in island chain navigation than on open ocean but theories are theories.
That's what KonTiki is about.
There are also theories that one can infer large ripple tides which they claim refract from large islands and can be seen with a trained eye.
probably more useful in island chain navigation than on open ocean but theories are theories.
This post was edited on 11/15/21 at 3:36 pm
Posted on 11/15/21 at 3:35 pm to Street Hawk
Moana bro.
Posted on 11/15/21 at 3:35 pm to Street Hawk
They followed birds and could often times see the island they were heading towards.
Posted on 11/15/21 at 3:35 pm to Street Hawk
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How did Polynesian wayfinders navigate the Pacific Ocean?
Haven't you seen Moana?
Posted on 11/15/21 at 3:35 pm to Street Hawk
If they were willing to travel the ocean in one of these, navigation was the least concern.
Posted on 11/15/21 at 3:37 pm to Street Hawk
Are you looking to journey beyond our reef, find Maui, deliver him across the great ocean to restore the heart of Te Fiti?
Posted on 11/15/21 at 3:40 pm to Street Hawk
And I can’t find the damn youngsville sports complex without using my gps
Posted on 11/15/21 at 3:40 pm to Street Hawk
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How did Polynesian wayfinders navigate the Pacific Ocean?
Someone obviously hasn’t watched Moana.
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