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Pius Mau Piailug (born 1932) is a Micronesian navigator, one of the best-known living practitioners of the ancient art of navigation without the aid of instruments. Year 1932 ( MCMXXXII) was a Leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. Micronesia, from the Greek mikros (μικρός (meaning small) and nesos (νῆσος (meaning island) is a Subregion A navigator is the person onboard a ship or aircraft responsible for its Navigation.

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Born on the island of Satawal in the Caroline Islands, Mau received his knowledge of navigation from an early age, taught first by his grandfather. Satawal is a solitary Coral Island located at in the Caroline Islands in the Federated States of Micronesia, the easternmost island in the The Caroline Islands form a large Archipelago of widely scattered islands in the western Pacific Ocean, northeast of New Guinea. When he was around 18, through training of a master navigator, he went through sacred ceremony called Pwo. Pwo is a sacred initiation ritual in which students of traditional Navigation in the Caroline Islands in Micronesia become master navigators and are initiated Through this he became "Paliuw" by a master navigator, through the Weriyeng School of Navigation. Weriyeng, is one of the last two schools of traditional Navigation found in Central Caroline Islands in Micronesia, the other being Faaluush. Weriyeng School of Navigation, which began on Pollap Island a long, long time ago, is only one of two schools of navigation left in Micronesia.

He is best known for his work with the Hawaii-based Polynesian Voyaging Society, navigating the double-hulled canoe Hokule‘a from Hawaii to Tahiti on its maiden voyage in 1976, and training and mentoring Native Hawaiian navigator Nainoa Thompson, who would later become a master navigator in his own right. The State of Hawaii ( or həˈwaɪʔiː Hawaiian: Mokuāina o Hawaii) is a state in the United States located on an Archipelago in the The Polynesian Voyaging Society (PVS is a non-profit research and educational corporation based in Honolulu, Hawai{{okina}}i. Hōkūlea is a performance-accurate full-scale replica of a "waa kaulua" a double-hulled Polynesian voyaging Canoe. The State of Hawaii ( or həˈwaɪʔiː Hawaiian: Mokuāina o Hawaii) is a state in the United States located on an Archipelago in the Tahiti is the largest Island in the Windward group of French Polynesia, located in the Archipelago of Society Islands in the Year 1976 ( MCMLXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. "Kanaka" redirects here For the Tamil actress see Kanaka (actress. Charles Nainoa Thompson (born 1953) is a Native Hawaiian Navigator and the executive director of the Polynesian Voyaging Society.

Alingano Maiso

On March 18, 2007 Piailug presided over the first Pwo ceremony for navigators on Satawal in 56 years. Events 37 - The Roman Senate annuls Tiberius ' will and proclaims Caligula emperor Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. At the event five native Hawaiians and eleven others were inducted into Pwo as master navigators. The Polynesian Voyaging Society presented Piailug a canoe, the Alingano Maisu, as a gift for his key role in reviving traditional wayfinding navigation in Hawaii. Alingano Maisu, also known simply as Maisu, is a double-hulled voyaging Canoe built in Kawaihae by members of Na Kalai Wa'a Moku o Hawai'i and Wayfinding encompasses all of the ways in which people and animals orient themselves in physical space and navigate from place to place

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