6 Creative Ways People Used to Navigate the Oceans
People have been exploring the oceans since prehistoric times, way before they had GPS to help them figure out where they were. Here are 6 ingenious ways our ancestors navigated the oceans....
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It's pretty hard to get lost these days, no matter where you are in the world. All you have to do is fire up your favorite navigation app and you're good. Even ships in the middle of the ocean have GPS. But back before all that technology existed, getting lost was a real danger, especially at sea. To the untrained eye, the ocean looks a whole lot like wet and nothing else. So people around the world independently came up with techniques for squeezing all of the information they could out of what they could see at sea. Lots of them hit on the usefulness of the stars to tell direction especially the Sun and Polaris the North Star and they came up with nifty devices to pinpoint their location based on the stars as well as how to find land when it w...
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It's pretty hard to get lost these days, no matter where you are in the world. All you have to do is fire up your favorite navigation app and you're good. Even ships in the middle of the ocean have GPS. But back before all that technology existed, getting lost was a real danger, especially at sea. To the untrained eye, the ocean looks a whole lot like wet and nothing else. So people around the world independently came up with techniques for squeezing all of the information they could out of what they could see at sea. Lots of them hit on the usefulness of the stars to tell direction especially the Sun and Polaris the North Star and they came up with nifty devices to pinpoint their location based on the stars as well as how to find land when it w...
