Hipour was a master navigator from the navigational school of
Weriyeng and the island of
Puluwat.
He is notable for teaching author
Thomas Gladwin the art of navigation for his 1970 book, ''
East Is a Big Bird'', which greatly reinvigorated interest in traditional
Pacific
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the contine ...
celestial navigation.
Hipour also accompanied
David Henry Lewis on his
ketch
A ketch is a two- masted sailboat whose mainmast is taller than the mizzen mast (or aft-mast), and whose mizzen mast is stepped forward of the rudder post. The mizzen mast stepped forward of the rudder post is what distinguishes the ketch fr ...
''
Isbjorn'' from
Puluwat to
Saipan and back, using traditional navigation techniques, which helped to fuel a renaissance in voyaging between the
Caroline and
Mariana Islands.
See also
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Fanuankuwel
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Kafeŕoor
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Mau Piailug
Pius "Mau" Piailug (pronounced ; 1932 – July 12, 2010) was a Micronesian navigator from the Carolinian island of Satawal, best known as a teacher of traditional, non-instrument wayfinding methods for open-ocean voyaging. Mau's Carolinian ...
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Polynesian navigation
Polynesian navigation or Polynesian wayfinding was used for thousands of years to enable long voyages across thousands of kilometers of the open Pacific Ocean. Polynesians made contact with nearly every island within the vast Polynesian Triangl ...
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Wa (watercraft)
''Wa'' are traditional sailing outrigger canoes of the Caroline Islands, Palau, and Yap. They have a single outrigger. They are similar to the '' sakman'' of the Northern Marianas.
Design and construction
''Wa'' are proa — vessels with ide ...
References
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Caroline Islands