Episode 46: The Stars from Starboard

from The Song of Urania · host Joe Antognini

The most important application of astronomy in Polynesian societies was oceanic navigation. Polynesian navigators regularly traversed from one small island to another across hundreds of miles of open sea. To accomplish these feats of seafaring, they relied on an intimate knowledge of the night sky.

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