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Ancient navigation skills revived

A Marshall Islands outrigger canoe has arrived in an outlying atoll after finishing the first long-distance voyage in the country using ancient navigation skills for 60 years.
The 9.1-metre outrigger canoe 'Jitdam Kapeel' left 145 kilometres and arrived 21 hours later on Friday after an overnight journey. The voyage is the first since World War II in which a voyaging canoe has attempted to sail between atolls in the Marshall Islands without modern navigational aids.
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