Namaste bloggers,
This week I am starting Summer Learning Journey for this first time, sorry for how late I was for this blog post. Anyways lets get started with this adventure.
Setting Sail And Exploring The World
How did Polynesian navigators travel the pacific ocean with the stars, sun and ocean swells?
Traditionally Polynesian navigators used stars to help navigate where they were going. They used a device called a star compass, a star compass is used to help memorize the rising points and setting points of the brightest and most distinctive stars and planets to set direction. The ability to read the sky is a great skill to have especially in the olden days. The pattern's of the stars and rhythms of the ocean guided them by night and the colour of sky and sun, shapes of clouds, and the direction from which the swells were coming guided them by day.
Who was the first person to figure out how to navigate with stars?
The first person to figure out how to read the stars was Thomas Hubbard Sumner. Thomas discovered (the later so called) line of position or circle of equal altitude, he (Thomas) named "parallel of equal altitude" on a voyage form South Carolina to Scotland in 1837.
Thank you for reading my blog post. Did you like it? Did you know these facts?
Tēnā Koe Miraj,
ReplyDeleteI am Kueni and I’m working as a blog commenter on the Summer Learning Journey this summer working with the Ako Hiko cluster. Welcome to the Summer Learning family, thank you for wanting to take part in this Programme, I am so excited to be working with you this Summer.
Ka pai on completing your very activity for the Summer Learning Journey this year, I really enjoyed reading it. Thank you for sharing about such an awesome story about how Polynesion navigators travelled the Pacific ocean. Please remember that when you use information from online that you need to re-write what you had read not just copying and pasting.
This activity is asking you to imagine that you have been invited to join Nainoa on a great ocean voyage. What 10 food items would you pack with you on a trip across the seas? Let me know by replying to this comment.
I look forward to reading your response and to reading more of your blog posts,
Kueni :)
Hello Miraj,
ReplyDeleteIt is me Vitaraag. I thought you weren't going to be participating, but suddenly you just popped up and now you are on fire with these activities! I really like how you added some pictures. Did you find those in labeled for reuse? I remember when I was small I used to lose my parents in a shop and then lie 1 minute later I find them. Man, that was scary. Has that ever happened to you? I also enjoyed learning about these methods people used to navigate their way somewhere. Maybe next time you could attribute the images. Overall, this is a phenomenal blog post! Keep up the astonishing work!
Vitaraag