Nature's Radar
The author uses a personal account of a short-handed small boat voyage, from the Orkney Islands into the Arctic Circle, to determine whether nature can help a navigator estimate their distance from land. As part of this exercise the author reinforces his argument (Gooley, 2010) that natural navigati...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s0373463312000495 2024-03-03T08:41:58+00:00 Nature's Radar Gooley, Tristan 2012 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0373463312000495 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0373463312000495 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Journal of Navigation volume 66, issue 2, page 161-179 ISSN 0373-4633 1469-7785 Ocean Engineering Oceanography journal-article 2012 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s0373463312000495 2024-02-08T08:32:07Z The author uses a personal account of a short-handed small boat voyage, from the Orkney Islands into the Arctic Circle, to determine whether nature can help a navigator estimate their distance from land. As part of this exercise the author reinforces his argument (Gooley, 2010) that natural navigation clues add not only to safety and general awareness, but offer the navigator a richer experience than relying solely on electronic navigation. The main aim of this expedition and paper is to establish whether some of the traditional methods of navigation, used by Pacific Island and Viking navigators, can be of any value to the modern navigator. Recorded sightings of birds, cetaceans, fish, jellyfish, water behaviour and colour are used to support the author's findings. The paper also contains the author's reflections on the experience of undertaking a voyage of this kind and leads to one surprising conclusion. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Cambridge University Press Arctic Pacific Journal of Navigation 66 2 161 179 |
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The author uses a personal account of a short-handed small boat voyage, from the Orkney Islands into the Arctic Circle, to determine whether nature can help a navigator estimate their distance from land. As part of this exercise the author reinforces his argument (Gooley, 2010) that natural navigation clues add not only to safety and general awareness, but offer the navigator a richer experience than relying solely on electronic navigation. The main aim of this expedition and paper is to establish whether some of the traditional methods of navigation, used by Pacific Island and Viking navigators, can be of any value to the modern navigator. Recorded sightings of birds, cetaceans, fish, jellyfish, water behaviour and colour are used to support the author's findings. The paper also contains the author's reflections on the experience of undertaking a voyage of this kind and leads to one surprising conclusion. |
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