Marshall Islands stick chart
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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.
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Polynesian navigation
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Polynesian navigation or Polynesian wayfinding was used for thousands of years to enable long voyages across thousands of kilometres of the open Pacific Ocean. Polynesians made contact with nearly eve
Hawaiian navigators sailing multi-hulled canoe, c. 1781
Marumaru Atua in Rarotonga, 2010.