Stick charts were made and used by the Marshallese to navigate the Pacific Ocean by canoe off the coast of the Marshall Islands. The charts represented major ocean swell patterns and the ways the isla
A Micronesian navigational chart from the Marshall Islands, made of wood, sennit fiber and cowrie shells.
Stick chart in Überseemuseum Bremen.
The Marshall Islands, officially the Republic of the Marshall Islands, is an archipelagic country in Oceania. The sovereign state lies west of the International Date Line and north of the equator in t
Marshall Islanders sailing, with sails brailed (reefed), c. 1899–1900
Manila Galleon in the Marianas and Carolines, c. 1590 Boxer Codex
Offices of the Pacific Navigation Co. at Jaluit Atoll in the late 1880s
German colonial administration building at Jaluit Atoll in 1886