"Navigator on the Observatory"
Collection of Sandra and William Gray
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After the discovery of a new island, the altitude of stars passing overhead and the places on the horizon of rising and setting stars would be carefully observed and incorporated into the lore of the navigators. Such knowledge would enable them to find the island again. Places for astronomical study were built, often as rock platforms oriented in some relationship to certain celestial events.

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