
Marshallese canoe sailing on Majuro Lagoon. Image from: www.canoesmarshallislands.com
For thousands of years, the Marshall Islanders of Micronesia have been finding their way around a broadly dispersed group of low-lying islands, navigating apparently without effort from one atoll to another one far beyond the horizon. They had no maps or magnetic compass, no clocks, no weather forecasts and certainly no GPS or SatNav equipment [TM236 or search for “thatsmaths” at irishtimes.com].
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