Early polynesian navigation.

This past week we have been working on Early Polynesian navigation. We had to research about Polynesian's this is what i wrote about it.

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How do you find your way around?

The Polynesian way finders used different ways of navigating these are the 3 ways they did it using stars,clouds and birds.

They had to use there hands to navigate at night because they didn't have to technology we have now

North stars are fixed points; they mark the point north. 

Southern cross showed where the south was. There's a line across the sky connected to 2 other stars then you look down on an angle that you have found south.The Polynesian use the stars to see where north south east and west is sometimes they use their hands to navigate. 

Big group of clouds could be above the mountains so you don't know there are mountains there.

Clouds reflect islands because it could be raining or it would be over top of the water on the island.They use the clouds to find the way the wind is blowing because the way the wind is blowing the clouds move the way the wind is blowing.

Birds near islands can only go so far or they will have no food and they will be tired.

Birds can only fly 190km from land so they can find their way back.They use the birds to find the island because they can see how the birds' wings are flapping their wings. 

Way finders navigated by the North star fixed point and they used clouds and birds.The clouds the way finders were looking for are stratus clouds and lenticular clouds.