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Indigenous Australians are strongly culturally linked to the land. They weren’t a sea faring people, unlike the Polynesians. They did have boats (dugouts), but
by guidedlight 3y ago
Indigenous Australians are strongly culturally linked to the land. They weren’t a sea faring people, unlike the Polynesians.
They did have boats (dugouts), but they weren’t suited for the ocean.
- defrost 3y agoBark canoes are not dugouts https://australian.museum/learn/cultures/atsi-collection/cultural-objects/indigenous-bark-canoe-from-new-south-wales/ https://australian.museum/learn/cultures/atsi-collection/cul... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Canoes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Canoes Also indigenous to the Sahul * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torres_Strait_Islanders https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torres_Strait_Islanders who lived on islands and travelled between PNG and Queensland, Australia but didn't venture south past the Great Barrier Reef and to New ZEaland - but did have the boats and seafaring skills. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makassar_people https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makassar_people who lived in (modern) Indonesia but routinely traded and fished between Northern Australia and China * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trepanging https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trepanging again, they never (to current knowledge) travelled around and past the Great Barrier Reef.
- masklinn 3y agoSounds like largely coastal navigation, with some longer hops, a pretty different beast from the open water austronesian (/ Melanesian / Polynesian) navigation.