celestial navigation
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She also knows celestial navigation and how to plot a course.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 8, 2025
Some examples of ancient TEK include midwifery, celestial navigation and fish conservation.
From Scientific American • Aug. 1, 2023
Sitting there, appreciating Aiken’s wry assessment of his own uncertain celestial navigation, I wondered what he would make of his hometown’s road map from past to present to future.
From Washington Post • Jul. 8, 2022
To top it off, the crew managed this feat without the aid of maps or radio contact, using only celestial navigation and an atlas obtained from a library in New Zealand.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 7, 2021
With the compass gone they would have to depend entirely upon celestial navigation.
From Dave Dawson on Guadalcanal by Bowen, Robert Sydney
