Our Watery World: The Stick Charts of Micronesia | Great Maps Explained

Описание: The fascinating and unique stick charts of Micronesia are a window into how Oceanic navigators explored and sailed the South Pacific over the past few thousand years. These ancient seagoers used intuition, measurement, and an incredible knowledge of stars and sea to navigate over distances that are simply mind-boggling. In this video, we review the stick-charts of Polynesia and Micronesia and what they reveal about the Pacific culture and history of navigation.

Through important people like Nainoa Thompson and Mau Piailug, the methods of ancient navigation are alive and well in our modern times and even going through a major revival, as Pacific cultures continue to maintain their traditions and strength. We are lucky to have such interesting ways of touching and understanding the world available to us and we do well to appreciate and guard these stories and histories.

My goal with this series is to explore the amazing maps that humanity has created over the span of human history, and to use these as ways to connect with our ancestors. I hope you enjoy going on this journey with me, and please let me know if you like this format and if you want to see more videos.

A huge thanks to everyone that helped to contribute to this video and whose works are featured here, including:

Images and Clips
"Star Talk" (   • Nainoa Thompson on Polynesian Wayfaring | ...  )
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collect...
https://archive.hokulea.com/ike/hooke...
https://www.sailtahiti.com/en/itinera...
"Marshall Islands Stick Chart" (   • Marshall Islands stick chart  )
https://www.dkfindout.com/uk/history/...
https://www.oceanicart.com/ABOUT/1
  / stick_chart_comparison   (thanks to Reddit user lander_ceuppens!)
https://www.hokulea.com/
https://hakaimagazine.com/article-sho...
Many clips from Pexels.

Audio
Music of Oceania: The Middle Sepik of Papua New Guinea (   • ▒ Music of Oceania: The Middle Sepik of Pa...  )
   • Видео  
And sound effects from https://freesound.org/.

Research
Sea People, Christina Thompson
   • Navigation Chart, Marshall Islands  
   • The Art of The Tautai: Polynesian Wayfinder  
The Ancients podcast (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast..., https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...)
https://manoa.hawaii.edu/exploringour...
https://gisgeography.com/ocean-curren...
https://joyofmuseums.com/museums/unit...
http://thenonist.com/index.php/thenon...
Tribute to Mau Piailug (   • A Tribute to Master Ocean Navigator Pius M...  )
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshal..., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mau_Pia...)
And many more.

A nod to Great Art Explained (   / @greatartexplained  ) for helping me come up with the idea for this series.

And of course, thanks to all the many hands along the course of history that created and shared such works, so we can all learn more from the past.

Love,
Victor

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