Background info may assist with grasping regional viewpoints. Indonesian people today have a heritage from their Majapahit empire of the 13th to 16th centuries. 'Indonesia' settled Madagascar Africa around the 8th century and Javanese ships reached the mid-Atlantic, as noted on the Fra Mauro map dated 1450. 'Ludovico di Varthema (1470-1517) stated that the Southern Javanese people sailed to 'far Southern lands' up to the point they arrived at an island where a day only lasted four hours long and was 'colder than in any part of the world'.
(click on pages): https://archive.org/details/travelsofludovic00vartrich/page/248/mode/2up
p 249-251.
All days are longer than 4 hours north of the Antarctic peninsula but midwinter day is 4 hours at the peninsula tip (such as James Ross island) 64 degrees S. Ships can't sail further south https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/@6620713
The first British colonists to arrive recorded seeing a wreck 'of ancient design' on Macquarie island.
https://www.antarctica.gov.au/about-antarctica/history/stations/macquarie-island/ [paragraph 5].
A balangay-type boat, as sculpted at Borobudur Java, is painted in Wessel Islands, NT. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09...t-of-ancient-wurramala-whale-hunters/12698808
These boats voyaged across SE Asia.
More details will follow according to readers' comments.
(click on pages): https://archive.org/details/travelsofludovic00vartrich/page/248/mode/2up
p 249-251.
All days are longer than 4 hours north of the Antarctic peninsula but midwinter day is 4 hours at the peninsula tip (such as James Ross island) 64 degrees S. Ships can't sail further south https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/@6620713
The first British colonists to arrive recorded seeing a wreck 'of ancient design' on Macquarie island.
https://www.antarctica.gov.au/about-antarctica/history/stations/macquarie-island/ [paragraph 5].
A balangay-type boat, as sculpted at Borobudur Java, is painted in Wessel Islands, NT. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09...t-of-ancient-wurramala-whale-hunters/12698808
These boats voyaged across SE Asia.
More details will follow according to readers' comments.
