Yes, very interesting. Steve ????? who was on This Old House wrote a book on Pacific Island sailors methods of navigation. He did a trip with them I think. A New Zealand sailor (who also circumnavigated Antartica) wrote a book on their navigation skills after sailing with them. I think it was a better book than Steve ???'s.
My way of thinking about the differences between European celestial navigation techniques and Micronesian navigation techniques is that the European methods are mathematical and the Micronesian is strictly empirical. I'd like to know how well a Micronesian would do navigating across the North Atlantic.

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