When It Hits the Fan/Personal Strategies and Know-how/Navigation

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Navigation skills[edit | edit source]

Survival situations are resolved by finding one's way to safety. This requires some navigation or movement:

Celestial navigation[edit | edit source]

using the sun and the night sky

Reading a map[edit | edit source]

particularly a topographic map together with a compass

Using a GPS receiver[edit | edit source]

Magnetic compass considerations[edit | edit source]

Making a crude compass[edit | edit source]

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