He lani ko luna, a sky above: Kalepa Baybayan at TEDxManoa

Kālepa Baybayan, previously Navigator-in-Residence, is the Associate Director of 'Imiloa Astronomy Center, Hilo. An active participant in the voyaging renaissance since 1975, Baybayan has served as captain and navigator aboard the Hawaiian deep-sea voyaging canoes Hōkūle'a, Hawai'iloa, and Hōkūalaka'i and sailed on all major voyages of the Hōkūle'a throughout Polynesia, Micronesia, the west coast of North America, and Japan. His most recent voyage as captain and navigator aboard Hōkūle'a took him and a Hawaiian speaking crew from Okinawa to Yamaguchi prefecture.

Baybayan is among an elite society of traditional wayfinding astronomers called "Master Navigators". Skilled in the study of Hawaiian starlines and the celestial sphere, and trained by traditional Satawalese Master Navigator Mau Piailug, he shares the title of Pwo Master Navigator with only 4 others in Hawai'i.

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