Tupaia’s map of the Pacific
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Tupaia’s map of the Pacific is an 18th-century chart created by the Polynesian navigator Tupaia that depicted the locations and interconnections of numerous Pacific islands based on Indigenous voyaging knowledge rather than European surveying techniques.
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| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tupaia’s map of the Pacific canonical | 1 |
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Target entity: Tupaia’s map of the Pacific Context triple: [Tupaia, hasNotableWork, Tupaia’s map of the Pacific]
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Mendaña’s Pacific expeditions
Mendaña’s Pacific expeditions were late 16th-century Spanish voyages led by Álvaro de Mendaña that sought to explore and claim vast, largely unknown regions of the South Pacific for the Spanish Crown.
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B.
Supplément au voyage de Bougainville
Supplément au voyage de Bougainville is a philosophical dialogue by Denis Diderot that critiques European colonialism and morality through a fictional commentary on Louis Antoine de Bougainville’s Pacific voyage.
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C.
Tasman’s journal
Tasman’s journal is the written account by Dutch explorer Abel Tasman documenting his pioneering 1642–1643 voyage that led to the first known European sightings of Tasmania and New Zealand.
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D.
Voyage to the Moluccas
Voyage to the Moluccas was the early 16th-century Spanish expedition, led by Ferdinand Magellan and later Juan Sebastián Elcano, that first circumnavigated the globe in search of a westward route to the Spice Islands.
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E.
Tupaia
Tupaia was a Tahitian high priest, navigator, and diplomat who joined James Cook’s first Pacific voyage and played a crucial role as interpreter and cultural intermediary between Europeans and Polynesian peoples.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Tupaia’s map of the Pacific Target entity description: Tupaia’s map of the Pacific is an 18th-century chart created by the Polynesian navigator Tupaia that depicted the locations and interconnections of numerous Pacific islands based on Indigenous voyaging knowledge rather than European surveying techniques.
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A.
Mendaña’s Pacific expeditions
Mendaña’s Pacific expeditions were late 16th-century Spanish voyages led by Álvaro de Mendaña that sought to explore and claim vast, largely unknown regions of the South Pacific for the Spanish Crown.
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B.
Supplément au voyage de Bougainville
Supplément au voyage de Bougainville is a philosophical dialogue by Denis Diderot that critiques European colonialism and morality through a fictional commentary on Louis Antoine de Bougainville’s Pacific voyage.
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C.
Tasman’s journal
Tasman’s journal is the written account by Dutch explorer Abel Tasman documenting his pioneering 1642–1643 voyage that led to the first known European sightings of Tasmania and New Zealand.
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D.
Voyage to the Moluccas
Voyage to the Moluccas was the early 16th-century Spanish expedition, led by Ferdinand Magellan and later Juan Sebastián Elcano, that first circumnavigated the globe in search of a westward route to the Spice Islands.
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E.
Tupaia
Tupaia was a Tahitian high priest, navigator, and diplomat who joined James Cook’s first Pacific voyage and played a crucial role as interpreter and cultural intermediary between Europeans and Polynesian peoples.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
18th-century map
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manuscript map ⓘ navigational chart ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Cook’s first Pacific voyage
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Polynesian voyaging traditions ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Indigenous voyaging knowledge
ⓘ
Polynesian navigational knowledge ⓘ |
| cartographicPerspective | Indigenous Pacific perspective ⓘ |
| cartographicPurpose | to show relationships rather than precise scale distances ⓘ |
| cartographicType | mental map rendered on paper ⓘ |
| contrastsWith |
European surveying techniques
ⓘ
longitude-latitude grid mapping ⓘ |
| creator | Tupaia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| culturalContext | Polynesian culture ⓘ |
| depicts |
Pacific Islands
NERFINISHED
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island interconnections ⓘ relative positions of islands ⓘ |
| epistemicTradition | Polynesian wayfinding epistemology ⓘ |
| function |
communication of island networks to Europeans
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representation of voyaging routes ⓘ |
| geographicRegion |
Pacific Ocean
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Polynesia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAuthorEthnicity | Polynesian ⓘ |
| hasAuthorRole |
expert in wayfinding
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navigator ⓘ priest ⓘ |
| hasInterpretationChallenge | difficult for Europeans to interpret using their own mapping conventions ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance |
challenges Eurocentric views of Pacific cartography
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evidence of sophisticated pre-European Pacific navigation ⓘ |
| knowledgeSource |
island-to-island voyaging experience
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ocean-swell patterns ⓘ oral tradition ⓘ star navigation ⓘ wayfinding practice ⓘ |
| language | Polynesian oral and symbolic traditions ⓘ |
| medium | paper ⓘ |
| portrays |
network of island groups
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voyaging directions between islands ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Indigenous cartography
ⓘ
history of Pacific exploration ⓘ history of navigation ⓘ |
| represents |
conceptual distances between islands
ⓘ
non-linear spatial relationships ⓘ |
| subject | Polynesian navigation ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 18th century ⓘ |
| uses |
Indigenous spatial concepts
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non-European cartographic conventions ⓘ |
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