From Hawaii to New Zealand: How The Polynesians Navigated

In around the ninth century, humans learned how to sail across vast tracts of the open ocean, to islands as far away as 1000 miles. In doing this, they had colonised the last frontier on the earth. The people who did this weren't at the forefront of human technology. They had no iron, a technology mastered elsewhere over two millennia prior. They also had no pottery - not because they didn't have the skill, but they didn't have the clay. Their achievements are nevertheless as awe-inspiring as any monument or grand civilisation.

This video doesn't so much cover the Polynesians, as look closely at the observations that they had made - it explains the phenomena and observations that were made which made navigation across the Pacific Ocean possible for Stone Age man.

Sections:
0:00 - Introduction
7:00 - The Stars
10:25 - The Star Compass
13:34 - The Sun & Moon
15:28 - The Waves or Swells
18:45 - The Wind
19:35 - The Currents
22:15 - Land Finding
26:19 - Conclusions

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