The Polynesians, scattered as they were over 1,000 islands across the central and southern Pacific Ocean, were master navigators who tracked their way over a huge expanses of ocean without any of the complex mechanical aids we associate with sea fairing. They didnât have the astrolabe or the sextant, the compass or the chronometer. They did however have aids of a sort, which though seemingly humbl
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