Traditional navigation by Pacific islanders involves no compasses or charts. Instead, navigators rely on the stars, on their reading of winds and waves, and on devices for memorizing vast amounts of knowledge.

Secrets of Ancient Navigation By Peter Tyson Oak and triple bronze must have girded the breast of him who first committed his frail bark to the angry sea --Horace, Odes Aye, mate. One can almost hear the weary assent of countless a hoary sailor upon hearing these words of Horace, almost see the rheumy eye staring distantly as if at some ghost ship on the horizon that only he can see. For the old ...

West Sea Company EVOLUTION OF THE SEXTANT By Rod Cardoza Edited by A. N. Stimson, Head of Navigation Section, Department of Astronomy and Navigation, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, England. All photographs courtesy West Sea Company unless otherwise noted 2000 West Sea Company. All rights reserved. Reproducing any part of this article without the expressed written consent of the author is ...

Escape from Antarctica (669K) Shockwave required Escape from Antarctica by Rick Groleau In Ernest Shackleton's view, there was only one course of action. Never mind that it was an act of desperation. He and a few of his men would have to leave Antarctica's Elephant Island and summon help. It was the best hope for saving himself and the 27 other men stranded there. So on April 24, 1916, ...

Peter Ifland The History of the Sextant Talk given at the amphitheatre of the Physics Museum under the auspices of the Pro-Rector for Culture and the Committee for the Science Museum of The University of Coimbra, the 3 October 2000. Where are we Well, yes. We're sitting here safe and dry in the Science Museum at the University of Coimbra. But the question has a different urgency when the ship ...

Message to the Reader I apologize for the considerable space in this volume of Northwest Journal which is devoted to early 19th century navigation, as many readers may have only a passing interest in this topic. However, please recognize that the vast majority of the information presented in these articles has never before appeared in print. Such a complete assessment of David Thompson's ...

THE SEAMANS SECRETS Devided into two parts. WHEREIN IS TAUGHT the three kindes of Sayling, Horizontal, Paradoxal, and Sayling upon a Great Circle Also an Horizontle Tyde-Table for the easie finding of the Ebbing and Flowing of the Tydes, with a Regiment newly Calculated for the finding of the Declination of the Sun, and many other most necessary Rules and Instruments not hereforte set by any.

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