List of Famous people born in Yap State, Federated States of Micronesia

Mau Piailug

First Name Mau
Last Name Piailug
Born on January 1, 1932
Died on July 12, 2010 (aged 78)

Pius "Mau" Piailug was a Micronesian navigator from the Carolinian island of Satawal, best known as a teacher of traditional, non-instrument wayfinding methods for open-ocean voyaging. Mau's Carolinian navigation system, which relies on navigational clues using the Sun and stars, winds and clouds, seas and swells, and birds and fish, was acquired through rote learning passed down through teachings in the oral tradition. He earned the title of master navigator (palu) by the age of eighteen, around the time the first American missionaries arrived in Satawal. As he neared middle age, Mau grew concerned that the practice of navigation in Satawal would disappear as his people became acculturated to Western values. In the hope that the navigational tradition would be preserved for future generations, Mau shared his knowledge with the Polynesian Voyaging Society (PVS). With Mau's help, PVS used experimental archaeology to recreate and test lost Hawaiian navigational techniques on the Hōkūle‘a, a modern reconstruction of a double-hulled Hawaiian voyaging canoe.

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Manuel Minginfel

First Name Manuel
Last Name Minginfel
Born on September 28, 1978 (age 46)

Manuel Minginfel is a former weightlifter representing the Federated States of Micronesia and a convicted sex offender.

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