Pacific voyagers’ remarkable environmental knowledge allowed for long-distance navigation without Western technology. - Scientific Inquirer

Pacific voyagers’ remarkable environmental knowledge allowed for long-distance navigation without Western technology. - Scientific Inquirer

Richard (Rick) Feinberg, Kent State University Wet and shivering, I rose from the outrigger of a Polynesian voyaging canoe. We’d been at sea all afternoon and most of the night. I’d hoped to get a little rest, but rain, wind and an absence of flat space made sleep impossible. My companions didn’t even try. It was May 1972, and I was three months into doctoral research on one of the world’s most remote islands. Anuta is the easternmost populated …