See: Hokule’a info Hōkūleʻa is a performance-accurate waʻa kaulua ,, a Polynesian double-hulled voyaging canoe launched on 8 March 1975 by the Polynesian Voyaging Society, it is best known for its 1976 Hawaiʻi to Tahiti voyage

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Pius "Mau" Piailug  (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. Mau's Carolinian navigation sy

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book info excerpts (from epilogue): She was the sixty-ton, forty-year-old, twin-hulled deep-sea sailing canoe Hokule‘a , named for the Hawaiian word for Arcturus, the star of gladness, the brightest star in the northern night sky. The

Hōkūleʻa  is a performance-accurate waʻa kaulua, a Polynesian double-hulled voyaging canoe. Launched on 8 March 1975 by the Polynesian Voyaging Society, it is best known for its 1976 Hawaiʻi to Tahiti voyage completed with exclusively tra

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> link to full article Successful navigation requires forming a lasting memory of the locations and identities of significant objects in the environment in relation to each other and a compass. Multiple perceptual systems are involved

source All animals were experienced foragers having calibrated their sky compass and visual odometer, and learned the multiple landscape features for successful homing. The learning flights of the test animals were not recorded due to

> link to full article Animals that bring food to a central nest commonly face the problem of finding their way between their nest and feeding sites that may be hundreds or thousands of meters away. Over such distances, a forager is un

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