kvmhaven.blogg.se - Beyond the Blue Horizon by Brian M. Fagan

Stars are only available for navigating by about 20% of the time.

When stars rise and set, they move about 1 degree into the sky every 4 minutes, although the angles they rise and set at change with latitude.

A Hawaiian star compass has 32 equidistant directional points, which results in 28 compass directions between the 4 cardinal points.

Prehistoric sailors used cues like patterns in the currents and clouds to find land when exploring the open seas.

I was not expecting arctic terns and elephants to have similar voice tricks. I decided to take some inspiration from the animal kingdom instead of limiting myself to ancient sailing tricks, and I'm glad I did. I'm still working on stories at sea and trying to learn more weird stuff about low-tech navigation.