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Some Notes on the Navigation of 1985 Trans-Indian Ocean Canoe Voyage

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 October 2009

W. H. McGrath Cdr, USNR (Ret)
Affiliation:
(Navigator of the Sarimanoc)

Extract

In mid-1985 the 20 metre outrigger canoe Sarimanok, built in the Southern Philippines from tropical forest materials, sailed out of Bali, Indonesia, to follow the direct east-west Indian Ocean track which the first Austronesian settlers of Madagascar may have taken.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 1988

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