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19 Correlation of Significant Voyaging Activity with Rare Extreme Climate Events
Fig. 19.1 A diagram linking the birth of Hema, southern migrations to Hawaii and voyages of
Polynesian navigators with the intensity and frequency of El Niño events recorded in the low Nile
flood proxy data
of greatest exploratory activity. If El Niño events are seen as a means of equalizing
or dispersing heat in the Pacific, it is possible that the greater El Niño activity of this
earlier period may suggest far warmer conditions in the southern than in the northern
hemisphere in the first millennium AD. Voyaging into the Antarctic could be seen
19 Correlation of Significant Voyaging Activity with Rare Extreme Climate Events
Fig. 19.1 A diagram linking the birth of Hema, southern migrations to Hawaii and voyages of
Polynesian navigators with the intensity and frequency of El Niño events recorded in the low Nile
flood proxy data
of greatest exploratory activity. If El Niño events are seen as a means of equalizing
or dispersing heat in the Pacific, it is possible that the greater El Niño activity of this
earlier period may suggest far warmer conditions in the southern than in the northern
hemisphere in the first millennium AD. Voyaging into the Antarctic could be seen