Mau Piailug
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mau-piailug-163-4488350
title:
Mau Piailug
text:
Pius "Mau" Piailug 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 system, which relies on navigational clues using the Sun and stars, winds and clouds, seas and swells, and birds and fish, was acquired through rote learning passed down through teachings in the oral tradition. He earned the title of master navigator (palu) by the age of eighteen, aroun
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Micronesian navigator (1932–2010)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mau_Piailug
date created:
2005-10-28T05:12:18Z
date modified:
2024-08-28T06:06:33Z
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