Navigating the Pacific with no compass
An Age of Why cinematic history explainer. Original AI-generated illustrative imagery and reconstructions; synthetic narration. Illustrative images are not records of specific events.
Sources:
Wayfinding and Navigation — https://manoa.hawaii.edu/exploringourfluidearth/physical/navigation-and-transportation/wayfinding-and-navigation
Pacific migrations — https://teara.govt.nz/en/pacific-migrations/print
Canoe navigation — https://teara.govt.nz/en/canoe-navigation/print
Navigating by ocean swells — https://www.sciencelearn.org.nz/resources/626-navigating-by-ocean-swells
How the Voyage of the Kon-Tiki Misled the World About Navigating the Pacific — https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-voyage-kon-tiki-misled-world-about-navigating-pacific-180952478/
Circumnavigating our Changing Oceans — https://ocean.si.edu/human-connections/circumnavigating-our-changing-oceans
Chapters:
0:00 An Ocean Without Signposts
1:03 A Compass Made of Stars
2:23 Reading the Ocean's Swells
3:39 A Map Carried in the Mind
4:41 Seeing Land Before Land Appears
5:43 The Drift Theory That Misled the World
6:43 The Voyage That Woke the Old Ways
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