Experts from REI do a great job of explaining the basic parts of a compass and how to use them, but here is the breakdown: ...

your compass is going to point toward the sun. Exactly which part of the sun is hard to say, because the location of its magnetic poles changes roughly every 11 years, when sunspots produced ...

Until the arrival of GPS, the magnetic compass was the single most useful navigational tool available to humans. But it’s a recent invention. Although Chinese explorers understood the principles of ...

This means it always points North. 1. Which end of a magnet will the north pole of a compass point towards when it lines up with the magnetic field? The part of a compass that moves around to show ...

Such reversals in the Earth's magnetic field, they'd tell you ... So hang on to your compass. For the foreseeable future, it should work as advertised.—Peter Tyson ...