This guide will get you familiarised with a map and compass, teaching the basics of how to navigate with them, laying the foundation for you to head out and practice and hone your navigational skills.

The four main points of the compass are north ... and/or by showing a scale bar. The scale shows how much bigger the real world is than the map. If the scale is 1:50,000 it means that the map ...

A compass contains a small bar magnet on a pivot so that it can rotate. The compass needle points in the direction of the Earth's magnetic field, or the magnetic field of a magnet. place the ...