The News, Culture and Practice of Sailing woodenboats
in Australia, New Zealand & The South Pacific.
Reading a Pacific navigator’s mysterious map may require a shift in perspective
Sailing the southern Pacific Ocean in 1769, two of history’s greatest navigators drafted a remarkable map. One was the British explorer Captain James Cook. The other was Tupaia, an aristocratic high priest from the island of Ra'iātea, who had joined Cook’s expedition in Tahiti.
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