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What Features Of Ocean Swells Make Them Useful For The Navigator

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What Features Of Ocean Swells Make Them Useful For The Navigator

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Ocean swells divide and curl around an island, it creates a pattern in the ocean. This allows the navigator to detect this pattern a far distance away from the island.

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I think this text is about life on sea as explorers, as one of the headings being "Life as voyagers,". The text shows this story is more about how Polynesians explored our vast oceans, how they survived and how they made their waka.

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Nearing the end of life (death)

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Wind blowing from either the West or East.

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Polynesian navigators were experts in the movement of the sun, moon, stars and planets. Another thing they were experts in were the ocean swells, a wave in the sea that curves are land. The navigators can find the ocean swells and detect where the land may be.

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A yacht or boat that has the twin hulls in parallel.

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Spiritual means relating to people's thoughts and beliefs, rather than to their bodies and physical surroundings.

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Hawaiki is a spiritual and physical homeland for polynesians. Polynesian people remember Hawaiki as a place of heroes and greet deeds.

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An action that is performed intentionally or consciously.

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The life of a voyager can be tiring, everyone has duties to fulfil during their time on the waka. They all need to make sure the waka is sailing well, they watch both the sea and sky to see if they're sailing the right way.

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Shaped like a triangle.

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Large wave movements of the sea that are so
powerful they are not affected by local winds.

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The back part of a boat.

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Someone who guides a vehicle (like a ship or
plane) on the right path (used in this text to
describe the person who guides the waka in the
right direction)

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The unit of measurement used by the captains of ships and planes to measure distance.
(1 nautical mile = 1852 metres)

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Cords used to tie things together.

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The main part of a boat that sits in the water –
it doesn’t include the masts and sails.

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The line where the sea and the sky seem
to meet.

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I know Rapanui is somewhere around the Pacific ocean, and I think the Easter Island is mostly known for the Moai statues found all through Easter Island.

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Scattered, broken pieces of something

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The study of human history through looking at
old places where people lived.

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Members of the same family (or group of
people) who lived long ago.

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What Food Was Brought With The Voyagers For Long Trips?

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What Food Was Brought With The Voyagers For Long Trips?

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Polynesians took fruit and taro (vegetables) with them for long trips, eating the fruit within a few days and saving the rest of taro for the rest of the journey.

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Navigators navigate through the sea with the movement of the sun, moon, stars and planets. Allowing them to travel at both day, and night.

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People who go on a long journey. (Pirate)

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How Many Nautical Miles Did It Take To Get To Rapanui And Back?

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How Many Nautical Miles Did It Take To Get To Rapanui And Back?

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It took 10 000 nautical miles, which is 18 520 km. One nautical mile being approximately 1.852 km.