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Mau Piailug

Mau Piailug, sitting on a chair, he was a Micronesian navigator

Mau Piailug was a Micronesian navigator from the Carolinian island of Satawal, best known as a teacher of traditional, non-instrument wayfinding methods for deep-sea voyaging.

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