July
09
/ 2019
A brave Japanese and Taiwanese rowing team has successfully replicated a 32,000-year-old ancient sea migration route in a traditional dugout canoe. After two failed attempts on Sunday afternoon, one Taiwanese man, three Japanese men, and one Japanese woman boarded their 7.6-meter-long, 70-centimeter-wide (24.93-ft.-long by 27.56-inches-wide) wooden canoe and paddled 200 kilometers (125 miles) from Taitung County, southeastern Taiwan, to Yonaguni Island, Okinawa. Over two days and nights, remaining loyal to the ancient archaeological nature of their project, the team calculated latitude at sea with the sun, their course by the stars, and they gauged wind speed and direction for their bearings. [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"62312","attributes":{"alt":"Crew setting out for the voyage (CAN)","class":"media-image","height":"458","style":"width: 610px; height: 458px;","typeof":"foaf:Image","width":"610"}}]] Crew setting out for the voyage ( CAN )
