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Marshall Islands Stick Chart Draws Fresh Interest
Original: Marshall Islands Stick Chart
The traditional navigation charts of the Marshall Islands are being discussed, made of sticks and shells representing ocean swells and islands. These wave-reading charts, once used by Marshallese sailors to navigate vast distances between atolls, are regarded as a unique indigenous cartographic invention, and renewed online interest highlights how navigators memorised complex swell patterns rather than carrying the charts at sea.
Why now: The unusual indigenous navigation technology has resurfaced as a topic of curiosity and appreciation online.
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- Marshall Islands Stick Chart · Thevet · 59
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