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  2. www.wikihow.com › Use-a-CompassHow to Use a Compass: Instructions & Tips for Beginners - wikiHow

    Jun 5, 2024 · 2. Hold the compass correctly. Place the compass flat on your palm and your palm in front of your chest. This is the proper compass stance, when traveling. If you're consulting a map, place the map on a flat surface and place the compass on the map to get a more accurate reading. [2] 3.

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  3. www.compassdude.com › compass-readingHow to Read a Compass

    Hold it about halfway between your face and waist in a comfortable arm position with your elbow bent and compass held close to your stomache. Look down at the compass and see where the needle points. This compass is pointing due North (also 0 degrees) Turn your body while keeping the compass in front of you.

  4. www.youtube.com › watchHow to Set and Follow Compass Bearings - YouTube

    Set and adjust your compass to guide you on a bearing in whatever direction you want in relation to Magnetic North. I show you how to adjust your compass to ...

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  5. mountain-hiking.com › how-to-use-a-compassHow to Use a Compass | Visual Step-by-Step Guide

    Orient your map and compass. Turn your compass dial until it shows N at the index mark1 under the direction-of-travel arrow2. Line up a side edge of your compass with the map’s vertical gridlines3. Next, holding the map and compass, turn your body until the red arrow is inside the red “shed”4.

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  6. www.youtube.com › watchHow to take a compass bearing with Steve Backshall and ...

    #GetOutside champion Steve Backshall teaches you how to use a compass to take a bearing and find out which direction you need to go to get from one point on ...

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  7. www.advnture.com › how-to › how-to-use-a-compassHow to use a compass: get your navigational bearings | Advnture

    May 6, 2022 · Take the compass off the map, hold it longways, flat in the palm of your hand, with the direction of travel arrow pointing away from you. Rotate your body until the red end of the floating needle settles exactly in the red orienting arrow on the base of the housing. You’re now facing in the direction you want to walk in.

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  9. howtowilderness.com › compass-readingReading a Compass - HowToWilderness.com

    A bearing is the angle of direction to a target, usually in degrees. To take a bearing, you point the arrow of direction towards the target, and then orient the compass by aligning the orienting arrow with the compass needle. The bearing angle can then be read off the compass along the direction of travel. Target bearing of 300 degrees

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