This guide will get you familiarised with a map and compass, teaching the basics of how to navigate with them, laying the ...

An old map will show a declination that is no longer accurate, and all your calculations using that declination angle will be incorrect. As you will see, understanding this distinction becomes ...

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 ...

Last spring, a 23-year-old woman was driving her car through ... Scientists since the 1940s have argued we normally possess an internal compass, “a map-like representation within the ‘black ...

For the old poet's words ring only too true ... The greatest advance in navigation came with the compass. The Chinese apparently knew about the powers of magnetism as early as the third millennium ...

A spade, a tape measure, a metal detector, and his son Ethan with his trusty compass. The map says to start at the old climbing tree and walk north for ten metres. It’s Ethan's job to find north ...