Sentences with phrase «master navigator»
In 1976, under the teachings of Micronesian master navigator Mau Piailug, the Polynesian Voyaging Society built and set sail the Hōkūleʻa, a performance accurate Polynesian double - hulled voyaging canoe, thus launching a new era of Hawaiian Renaissance and Pacific cultural revival.
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A master navigator with nearly 5,000 flying hours, German played a key role in coordinating the state's emergency responses to tropical storms Irene and Lee in 2011 and Superstorm Sandy in 2012.
In 2007, my mentor [the now deceased Pius (Mau) Piailug, a master navigator famous for navigating without instruments] was conducting an initiation ceremony on Satawal Island in Micronesia.
Master navigators of Oceania explored and settled what Epeli Hau'ofa called the «sea of islands» — one third of the Earth's surface — and developed astute skills of observation and deep knowledge of the ocean, sky, and cosmos.