newguineatribalart:Micronesian navigation charts were not a map. The charts were never carried out t
newguineatribalart:Micronesian navigation charts were not a map. The charts were never carried out to sea, these charts acted as a memory device to help navigators memorize information. The navigators apprentice would make the stick chart onshore and commit it to memory. Later in the middle of the ocean out of sight of land the apprentice would have to know his position from the swell patterns -- source link