These women are descendants of Polynesian navigators, trained in the old ways by their elders,

Lincoln Island is unknown to navigators, since it is not marked even on the most recent maps.

He was one of your great seamen, the captain told me, one of your shrewdest navigators, that d'Urville!

Oh, damnation! Ned Land shouted, stamping his foot on the resonant sheet iron. Open up there, you antisocial navigators!

However, the most accurate clocks available to these early navigators were water clocks and sand clocks, such as hourglass.

You won't pull it off, because if I'm not mistaken, certain navigators have cruised through milk seas for more than forty miles.

Sometimes on the surface of the waves, sometimes beneath them, the ship wandered for days amid these mists so feared by navigators.

The first Europeans to visit the area were the navigators George Bass and Matthew Flinders, who landed at Lake Illawarra in 1796.

These women are descendants of Polynesian navigators, trained in the old ways by their elders, and now they're passing it on to me.

Four European navigators, namely Captain Cook, Matthew Flinders, John Bingle and William Edwardson, all visited Moreton Bay but failed to discover the river.

I recently sailed on the Hokulea, named after the sacred star of Hawaii, throughout the South Pacific to make a film about the navigators.

But other European navigators and scientists were involved in this adventure from the outset Italians, Frenchmen, Dutchmen, British, Germans and people of other nationalities.

They have been compared to astronauts these elder navigators who sail vast open oceans in double hulled canoes thousands of miles from a small island.

They have been compared to astronauts these elder navigators who sail vast open oceans in double hulled canoes thousands of miles from a small island.

Picture those early navigators venturing forth in sailboats built from planks lashed together with palm tree ropes, caulked with powdered resin, and coated with dogfish grease.

Now science may dismiss this methodology, but Polynesian navigators use it today because it provides them an accurate determination of the angle and direction of their vessel.

Moreover, the waters of the Indian Ocean have always been used for sea passages, while providing landing places for the early navigators and possibilities for seaborne migration.

Now science may dismiss this methodology, but Polynesian navigators use it today because it provides them an accurate determination of the angle and direction of their vessel.

History Volans is one of the 12 constellations that were introduced by the Dutch navigators Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman in the late 16th century.

It was Tierra del Fuego, the Land of Fire, a name given it by early navigators after they saw numerous curls of smoke rising from the natives' huts.

LibreBus 'free navigators' also organized meetings with digital natives whose contributions complemented to the discussion on free software and the defense of freedom of speech and content sharing.

Jean François de La Pérouse and William Robert Broughton were the first non Russian European navigators known to have passed through these waters other than Maarten Gerritsz Vries.

There could be no better way of paying tribute to the navigators of 500 years ago than to emulate them by displaying the ability to innovate and develop.

Porto Seguro () is a city located in Bahia state, Brazil the region surrounding Porto Seguro was the first to be discovered by Portuguese navigators in the current Brazilian territory.

The chapel houses The Virgin of the Navigators , one of the first paintings to depict the discovery of the Americas and one of the earliest paintings to depict Columbus.

Flamsteed was attempting to construct a detailed and accurate star map of the heavens, in the hope that this would eventually solve the problem of longitude determination for ocean navigators.

After the islands were discovered by the explorers João de Santarém and Pêro Escobar, Portuguese navigators explored the islands and decided they would be a good location for bases to trade with the mainland.

Did the navigators who set sail from Lisbon or Palos de Moguer 500 years ago in the cause of expansion or discovery have their sights set on the East Indies or the West Indies?

A new tab activity and another name make it possible to follow more legibly and directly the activity of other Twitters, the internet navigators whose messages are monitored ( tweets ) and of those who monitor you.

One of its navigators was Amerigo Vespucci (for whom the Americas would be named), who told Cabral of his exploration, confirming that he had indeed made landfall on an entire continent and not merely an island.

Diogo Cão ( in old Portuguese Cam) was a Portuguese explorer and one of the most notable navigators of the Age of Discovery, who made two voyages sailing along the west coast of Africa in the 1480s.

A magnificent plain of waves plowed continuously by ships of every nation, shaded by every flag in the world, and ending in those two dreadful headlands so feared by navigators, Cape Horn and the Cape of Tempests!

The fleet of seven ships and 450 men was led by García Jofre de Loaísa and included the most notable Spanish navigators Juan Sebastián Elcano and Loaísa, who lost their lives then, and the young Andrés de Urdaneta.

Her Government was involved in a number of initiatives aimed at sharing the benefits of outer space, including the Geoscience for Andean Communities Project and the provision of satellite images to assist navigators in staying clear of drifting ice.

But to overcome all the obstacles around the South Pole even more unattainable than the North Pole, which still hadn't been reached by the boldest navigators wasn't this an absolutely insane undertaking, one that could occur only in the brain of a madman?

And I am reminded that throughout the world there are cultures with vast sums of knowledge in them, as potent as the Micronesian navigators, that are going dismissed, that this is a testament to brilliant, brilliant technology and science and wisdom that is vanishing rapidly.

And I am reminded that throughout the world there are cultures with vast sums of knowledge in them, as potent as the Micronesian navigators, that are going dismissed, that this is a testament to brilliant, brilliant technology and science and wisdom that is vanishing rapidly.

The kstars Icon is a sextant, a handheld telescope which was used by navigators on sailing ships back when the stars were important for navigation. By carefully reckoning the positions of the stars, the navigator could get an accurate estimate of the ship's current longitude and latitude.

So the Nautilus hove before the entrance to the world's most dangerous strait, a passageway that even the boldest navigators hesitated to clear the strait that Luis Vaez de Torres faced on returning from the South Seas in Melanesia, the strait in which sloops of war under Captain Dumont d'Urville ran aground in 1840 and nearly miscarried with all hands.

'I should like to refer to Portugal's history as an Atlantic country, a land of navigators, and to make special reference to the economic explora tion of the oceans a new frontier of technology particularly appropriate to the development of increased international collaboration, in which the European Community has considerable capacity for innovation and research of which it must avail itself without delay.'