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Pilots use a compass to navigate. Captains on ships and forest rangers in
forests both use compass to find directions.
A compass can be used to keep track of time as
well as distance and direction.
In olden days, before the compass was invented,
travellers depended on the movement of the Sun
to know the time of the day and the direction in
which they were travelling. Pilots use a compass to navigate
Before the invention of the compass, travellers used the
movement of the Sun to determine the time of day and direction
of travel.
Nowadays, Google Maps and the Global Positioning System
(GPS) are widely used in place of maps and compasses.
Google Map
Google Map
Amazing Mappa Mundi is one of the oldest maps in the world. Mappa refers to a cloth or
Facts towel, and mundi means ‘world’.
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