avatea system. It seemed at first reading a seductive hypothesis and it challenges our own work about island compasses, but the more we struggled with it, trying to decipher their analysis, the more dubious we became. Too many questions remain unresolved, such as why were the islands closest to Tahiti, and therefore the ones that should be well known to Tupaia, the northern Tuāmotus and the Marquesas, not placed on the map using the avatea system? One could, like the authors, argue that the ship’s officers directed the relative placement of the Tuāmotus on the chart (p. 68), but in that case it is surprising that these same islands (most of which were unknown to the Europeans) function quite well with the island compass system. Why do so many of the new identifications relate to small, uninhabited atolls and a priori of little use for navigation, such as Oeno, Ducie, Rose atoll, Uea (close to Rotuma), Manuae atoll, Motu One? Tupaia would not have agreed with their identifications. He described the first four as inhabited and large, specifying that they abound ‘with the same Provisions and Commodities’ as Tahiti (p. 19, fig. 6, 47).

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作者的回应：回顾图帕亚地图的制作

avatea系统。乍看起来似乎是在读一个诱人的假设，它挑战了我们自己关于岛屿指南针的工作，但是我们越是为之努力，试图破译它们的分析，我们就变得更加可疑。仍然有许多问题尚未解决，例如为什么离塔希提岛最近的岛屿，以及为什么图帕亚，图阿莫图斯北部和马萨诸塞州应该熟知的那些岛却没有使用avatea系统放置在地图上？可能像作者一样争论说，该船的船长指示图阿莫图斯在海图上的相对位置（第68页），但是在那种情况下，这些相同的岛屿（其中大部分是欧洲人不知道的）令人惊讶与岛屿指南针系统配合得很好。为什么这么多新的标识与小的，无人居住的环礁有关，而先验却很少用于导航，例如Oeno，Ducie，Rose环礁，Uea（靠近Rotuma），Manuae环礁，Motu One？Tupaia不会同意他们的身份。他将前四个人描述为有人居住且大，并指出它们与塔希提岛“有相同的规定和商品”（第19页，图6、47）。