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110 OUR ANCESTORS CAME FROM OUTER SPACE<br />

WINDS<br />

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CURRENTS —fc<br />

CIRCULAR NAVIGATION ROUTES<br />

USING WIND AND CURRENTS<br />

This map shows how our ancestors<br />

without sextant, compass, or chronometer, using only winds and ciirrents<br />

that would bring them back home a few years later. They could<br />

determine their latitude from the height of the polar star and their<br />

longitude from the relative motions of the sun and moon.<br />

could have crossed wide oceans<br />

they left behind continues successfully, we will eventually have<br />

a map of all their incredible voyages.<br />

The current of the North Pacific moves south along the coasts<br />

of California and Mexico, turns west at Acapulco, crosses the<br />

Pacific at its widest, passing south of Hawaii, and arrives at the<br />

Philippines, where it starts flowing north till it reaches Japan,<br />

turns east, and comes back to California. This current must have<br />

played an important role in the migration of the Asiatic races

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