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  2. Polynesian navigation - Wikipedia

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    The Polynesian triangle. Between about 3000 and 1000 BC speakers of Austronesian languages spread through the islands of Southeast Asia – most likely starting out from Taiwan, [9] as tribes whose natives were thought to have previously arrived from mainland South China about 8000 years ago – into the edges of western Micronesia and on into Melanesia, through the Philippines and Indonesia.

  3. Mau Piailug - Wikipedia

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    Pius "Mau" Piailug (pronounced / ˈ p aɪ ə s ˈ m aʊ p iː ˈ aɪ l ə ɡ /; 1932 – 12 July 2010) was a Micronesian navigator from the Carolinian island of Satawal, best known as a teacher of traditional, non-instrument wayfinding methods for open-ocean voyaging.

  4. History of navigation - Wikipedia

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    Map of the world produced in 1689 by Gerard van Schagen. The history of navigation , or the history of seafaring , is the art of directing vessels upon the open sea through the establishment of its position and course by means of traditional practice, geometry, astronomy, or special instruments.

  5. David Lewis (adventurer) - Wikipedia

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    David Henry Lewis DCNZM (1917 – 23 October 2002) was a sailor, adventurer, doctor, and scholar of Polynesian culture.He is best known for his studies on the traditional systems of navigation used by the Pacific Islanders.

  6. We, the Navigators - Wikipedia

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    We, the Navigators, The Ancient Art of Landfinding in the Pacific is a 1972 book by the British-born New Zealand doctor David Lewis, which explains the principles of Micronesian and Polynesian navigation through his experience of placing his boat under control of several traditional navigators on long ocean voyages.

  7. Micronesian navigation - Wikipedia

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    The Austronesian peoples, who include the people of Micronesia, developed oceangoing sailing technologies to migrate across the Pacific Ocean.. Micronesian navigation techniques are those navigation skills used for thousands of years by the navigators who voyaged between the thousands of small islands in the western Pacific Ocean in the subregion of Oceania, that is commonly known as Micronesia.

  8. Polynesian Voyaging Society - Wikipedia

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    The first PVS project was to build a replica of a double-hulled voyaging canoe. [1] In the genesis of the Society, the East–West Center was instrumental in convincing the UN authorities in the Pacific of the necessity of the project. The navigator Pius "Mau" Piailug, master of the techniques of traditional navigation, was named Special Fellow ...

  9. Austronesian vessels - Wikipedia

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    Austronesian vessels are the traditional seafaring vessels of the Austronesian peoples of Taiwan, Maritime Southeast Asia, Micronesia, coastal New Guinea, Island Melanesia, Polynesia, and Madagascar. [2] They also include indigenous ethnic minorities in Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand, Hainan, the Comoros, and the Torres Strait Islands.