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Describes how to find directions using readily available materials in a survival situation. Includes diagrams.
www.wilderness-survival.net/chp18.php
NIMA Digital Navigation Publications Corrected through U.S. Notice to Mariners No. 34/2002 (24 August 2002) Click here to view the availability of all provided publications. Pub Nbr Title Current Edition Last NTM Applied Chart No. 1 10 18/1998 9 The American Practical Navigator 49/1998 102 International Code of Signals 52/2001 117 Radio Navigational Aids 50/2001 150 World Port Index 17 33/2002 ...
Traditional navigation by Pacific islanders involves no compasses or charts. Instead, navigators rely on the stars, on their reading of winds and waves, and on devices for memorizing vast amounts of knowledge.
www.museum.upenn.edu/navigation/Intro.html
Celestial and Chart navigation software. Online star finder. Online Nautical Almanac.
Kjetil Kjernsmo's illustrated compass tutorial. It teaches how to use a compass in several lessons. From an easy introduction to how to find the way in dense fog or if you haven't got a compass. Also contains suggested exercises.
www.learn-orienteering.org/old
Excellent free navigation course - online marine resources to teach you to navigate safely - This course is highly recommended - Introduction.
www.sailingissues.com/navcourse0.html
The navigation and cruising under sail community.
Secrets of Ancient Navigation By Peter Tyson Oak and triple bronze must have girded the breast of him who first committed his frail bark to the angry sea --Horace, Odes Aye, mate. One can almost hear the weary assent of countless a hoary sailor upon hearing these words of Horace, almost see the rheumy eye staring distantly as if at some ghost ship on the horizon that only he can see. For the old ...
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/longitude/secrets.html
A free online e-book on map reading and land navigation. It covers how to read a map and how to use a compass. Based on US Army training manuals.
The OA Guide to Map and Compass. Information on wilderness navigation using map and compass.
www.princeton.edu/~oa/manual/mapcompass.shtml
Celestial navigation calculator. Find your position with a sextant and a PalmOS handheld.
www.mobilegeographics.com/celestnav
aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/celnavtable.html
West Sea Company EVOLUTION OF THE SEXTANT By Rod Cardoza Edited by A. N. Stimson, Head of Navigation Section, Department of Astronomy and Navigation, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, England. All photographs courtesy West Sea Company unless otherwise noted 2000 West Sea Company. All rights reserved. Reproducing any part of this article without the expressed written consent of the author is ...
www.westsea.com/tsg3/octlocker/octchart.htm
Escape from Antarctica (669K) Shockwave required Escape from Antarctica by Rick Groleau In Ernest Shackleton's view, there was only one course of action. Never mind that it was an act of desperation. He and a few of his men would have to leave Antarctica's Elephant Island and summon help. It was the best hope for saving himself and the 27 other men stranded there. So on April 24, 1916, ...
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/shackleton/navigate/escape.html
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Y Funatsu & Y Funatsu, April 21-23 1999, Some Aspects of Space Navigation Law , Proceedings of 2nd International Symposium on Space Travel, Space Tours GmbH, in press.. Also downloadable from http://www.spacefuture.com/archive/some_aspects_of_space_navigation_law.shtml ...
www.spacefuture.com/archive/some_aspects_of_space_navigation_law.shtml
Peter Ifland The History of the Sextant Talk given at the amphitheatre of the Physics Museum under the auspices of the Pro-Rector for Culture and the Committee for the Science Museum of The University of Coimbra, the 3 October 2000. Where are we Well, yes. We're sitting here safe and dry in the Science Museum at the University of Coimbra. But the question has a different urgency when the ship ...
www.mat.uc.pt/~helios/Mestre/Novemb00/H61iflan.htm
Message to the Reader I apologize for the considerable space in this volume of Northwest Journal which is devoted to early 19th century navigation, as many readers may have only a passing interest in this topic. However, please recognize that the vast majority of the information presented in these articles has never before appeared in print. Such a complete assessment of David Thompson's ...
www.northwestjournal.ca/dtnav.html
THE SEAMANS SECRETS Devided into two parts. WHEREIN IS TAUGHT the three kindes of Sayling, Horizontal, Paradoxal, and Sayling upon a Great Circle Also an Horizontle Tyde-Table for the easie finding of the Ebbing and Flowing of the Tydes, with a Regiment newly Calculated for the finding of the Declination of the Sun, and many other most necessary Rules and Instruments not hereforte set by any.
www.mcallen.lib.tx.us/books/seasecr/dseasec1.htm
Electronic Compass with the same innovative patented magnetic sensor technology found in GM, Ford and Chrysler vehicles. An Electronic Digital Compass now available for your vehicle, boat, motorcycle, bicycle or hiking.
www.electronic-compass.com
Celestial Navigation Discussion Deck.
jollyroger.com/zz/yna4d/CelestialNavigationhall/shakespeare1.html
Sun Compass Using a Horizontal Sundial as a Sun Compass - by John C. Fakan, Ph.D. usscod@en.com In each image the magnetic compass is adjusted for the 5-deg W local magnetic variation. (Click on the thumbnails for a larger image.) Sun Compass set for 17 Jan 1999 1245 17 Jan 99 1250 - Comparison with magnetic compass 17 Jan 99 1300. Case of magnetic compass is adjusted for local variation 17 Jan ...
www.usscod.org/suncomp/suncomp.html
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