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Outback Survival tips
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<blockquote data-quote="davent" data-source="post: 216612" data-attributes="member: 6002"><p>Good idea about survival tips, here are 2 easy to remember navigation tips, one for day and one for night.</p><p></p><p>find north with your watch.</p><p></p><p>point the 12 idicator of your watch at the sun.</p><p>half way between the 12 , and the hour hand, is north.</p><p></p><p>Night time.</p><p></p><p>find the southern cross.</p><p>draw an imaginary line length ways through the southern cross.</p><p>now find the 2 pointers (alpha and centruri) now draw an imaginary line parralell between the pointers untill it cross paths with the line through the southern cross. Where the lines meet, drop down to the horizon, and that is close to due south.</p><p></p><p>there are variations to these methods , but they will keep you in line, north to the coast for me, or soth to the stuart highway from where I detect.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="davent, post: 216612, member: 6002"] Good idea about survival tips, here are 2 easy to remember navigation tips, one for day and one for night. find north with your watch. point the 12 idicator of your watch at the sun. half way between the 12 , and the hour hand, is north. Night time. find the southern cross. draw an imaginary line length ways through the southern cross. now find the 2 pointers (alpha and centruri) now draw an imaginary line parralell between the pointers untill it cross paths with the line through the southern cross. Where the lines meet, drop down to the horizon, and that is close to due south. there are variations to these methods , but they will keep you in line, north to the coast for me, or soth to the stuart highway from where I detect. [/QUOTE]
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