How to Find Your Bearings with a Compass If you already know your location, you can use your compass to figure out how to get to any point on your map.

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Find midpoints. Note the compass bearing of your desired destination. Choose an intermediate landmark located along the same line, and start hiking toward it.

Map bearing - Declination = Magnetic Bearing. Magnetic Bearing to Map Bearing: If you use your compass to take a bearing from your current position to a point on the landscape, then you are working ...

Referred to as 'swinging the compass', the process involves the skipper taking instructions on making specific bearings against which the Captain measures the cardinal points of the compass.

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Direction-of-travel arrow: This shows you where to point your compass when taking a bearing. Index line: An extension of the direction-of-travel arrow that indicates where to read bearings.