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How To Use a Compass When Camping

I like navigating via paper maps. I know that makes me sound old school. But there are actually still a lot of places out ...
In the days since GPS was invented, many of us have lost the skill of navigating by a good old compass and map. As a family ...
As the new watch captain emerges on deck, his counterpart begins his hand-off with a report on the competition, “We’ve dropped them back 5 degrees in the last hour, plus the range has doubled, so ...
–The needle - this is the magnetised part that always point to magnetic north. –The dial - the dial is marked in degrees with North at 0/360, East at 90, South at 180 and West at 270 –The direction ...