[moonspots]

Any of you hear of, or try this method of navigation? I think it looks quite interesting, and if it works, quite useful...*if* you knew when "solar noon" was.

[Mike Collins]

We have known for some time that Vikings used sunstones for navigation. To have finally found one in a wreck puts the period at the end of the sentence. A wonderful read devoted specifically to this topic is Secrets of the Viking Navigators-How the Vikings used their amazing sunstones and other techniques to cross the open ocean by Leif K. Karlsen. You can get it here http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=18667709996&searchurl=sts%3Dt%26an%3DLeif%2520Karlsen

[tmatlack]

Thanks Mike, I just ordered it. Amazon has gently used ones too. I am mostly interested in Farley Mowat's theory of the Farfarers, a pre-Viking culture that may have crossed the Atlantic in skin covered boats. My wife and I are planning a UK tour and I'd like to see the northlands/Scotland/Outer Islands rather than the hordes of Picadilly or Stonehenge. Tom

[meandering Wa]

Interesting stuff thanks too for reminding me ABE Books was still going. I thought Amazon bought them

[Pyrites]

Does anyone sell a sunstone, geologic or synthetic?

[mike]

There is a place in S Central OR where you can go find it. It's along the road between Wagontire and Plush on BLM land. Under the dark clouds on the left

[fjoro]