The effort to recognize the immense contribution of the late master navigator and mariner, Pius "Mau" Piailug, to the re-emergence of oceanic wayfinding through non-instrument navigation, although ...

KRYSTLE MARCELLUS / [email protected] Artist Kamea Hadar was the guiding force behind a mural of Micronesian navigator Pius “Papa Mau” Piailug on Cooke Street in Kakaako. COURTESY MARK ...

At just a few minutes after 3 p.m. Friday, Tony Ganngiyan, governor of Yap, stood onstage in front of a crowd and gave a celebratory shout to announce the official blessing and renaming of the “Papa ...

IN THE spring of 1976 Mau Piailug offered to sail a boat from Hawaii to Tahiti. The expedition, covering 2,500 miles, was organised by the Polynesian Voyaging Society to see if ancient seafarers could ...

Mau Piailug, who died July 12 at 78 on the western Pacific island of Satawal, was one of the last masters of the nearly lost traditional art of using stars, sun and wind to find safe passage across ...

They are known as seafarers, voyagers and wayfinders, plus many other names in the languages of the Pacific. On the evening of Sept. 15, dozens of these modern-day practitioners gathered in Hagåtña to ...

Apr. 10—For master navigator Chad Kalepa Baybayan, there is a special seat among traditional navigators. He was one of 10 non-Micronesians inducted into Pwo, a 2, 000-year-old society of deep-sea ...

The Guam Museum, which currently features an exhibit on the importance of water to our island, next Saturday will host a panel discussion on the issue of traditional seafaring in Micronesia, including ...