Kia Ora bloggers!
Today I will be talking about what way finding navigation. What is way finding navigation? It is what our ancestors used to find New Zealand! They used stars, planets, floating debris, moon, sun, birds and waves. Here is some writing I did about our navigators.
The navigators were really impressive because they could use the stars at night to find their way home. They also found ways to navigate in the day and in the night when it was cloudy.
Navigators also followed the birds and waves to find land.
Did you know that Captain Cook wasn't the founder of New Zealand. Did you know that Captain Cook did not discover New Zealand first? And he didn't do it by himself. A man named Tupaia helped him with the navigation and that's how he got there.
You know, you could be a navigator too. You can find Matariki all through out the year except for June and July, you can't see Matariki in June or July because it is under the horizon( the line where the sky meets the earth). You can find Matariki if you look in the night sky and look to the west you might see it. You can also very easily find it at about 6:50 am in the morning. When the sun is about to rise you will see it near the sun. And you know you've found it when you see this.
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