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© diyor s. (2024) t.me/ielts_dr reading practice #2 (by @ielts_dr) read the text below and answer questions. pacific navigation and voyaging how people migrated to the pacific islands the many tiny islands of the pacific ocean had no human population until ancestors of today’s islanders sailed from southeast asia in ocean-going canoes approximately 2,000 years ago. at the present time, the debate continues about exactly how they migrated such vast distances across the ocean, without any of the modern technologies we take for granted. although the romantic vision of some early twentieth-century writers of fleets of heroic navigators simultaneously setting sail had come to be considered by later investigators to be exaggerated, no considered assessment of pacific voyaging was forthcoming until 1956 when the american historian andrew sharp published his research. sharp challenged the ‘heroic vision’ by asserting that the expertise of the navigators was limited, and that the settlement …
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or many years and navigated through the islands in order to contact those men who still find their way at sea using traditional methods. he then accompanied these men, in their traditional canoes, on test voyages from which all modern instruments were banished from sight, though lewis secretly used them to confirm the navigator’s calculations. his most famous such voyage was a return trip of around 1,000 nautical miles between two islands in midocean. far from drifting, as proposed by sharp, lewis found that ancient navigators would have known which course to steer by memorizing which stars rose and set in certain positions along the horizon and this gave them fixed directions by which to steer their boats. the geographer edwin doran followed a quite different approach. he was interested in obtaining exact data on canoe sailing performance, and to that end employed the latest electronic instrumentation. doran traveled on …

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© diyor s. (2024) t.me/ielts_dr reading practice #2 (by @ielts_dr) read the text below and answer questions. pacific navigation and voyaging how people migrated to the pacific islands the many tiny islands of the pacific ocean had no human population until ancestors of today’s islanders sailed from southeast asia in ocean-going canoes approximately 2,000 years ago. at the present time, the debate continues about exactly how they migrated such vast distances across the ocean, without any of the modern technologies we take for granted. although the romantic vision of some early twentieth-century writers of fleets of heroic navigators simultaneously setting sail had come to be considered by later investigators to be exaggerated, no considered assessment of pacific voyaging was forthcoming …

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