This last is now known as Le Maire Strait after the earlier Dutch navigator.

The waters around the island were treacherous for early European navigators.

He'd lived all this time like an early navigator, sailing the brink of the world, terrified he might at any moment fall off" the edge.

The royal archives disappeared together with detailed historical records of explorations by Vasco da Gama and other early navigators.

However, the most accurate clocks available to these early navigators were water clocks and sand clocks, such as hourglass.

There are several maps that show how early navigators created accurate charts.

Captain Cook and the other early navigators made a practice of introducing seeds, plants, and domestic animals amongst the natives.

The ula (dance) is an ancient Tongan group dance, already reported by early European navigators like captain Cook.

Though early navigators thought of the sea as a flat surface that could be used as a vertical datum, this is far from reality.

Many of the subsequent early navigators recorded a brush with the southern archipelago, long before its general shape was known.