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Navigating Ashore

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 January 2010

Extract

In all forms of navigation a distinction can be made between the two processes of finding out what the present position is and finding out what direction to go in to reach a given destination. On land the former process becomes the more important of the two because the constraints of natural ground features or of artificial obstacles often make a preset course impossible, as a motor drive along English country lanes shows so well. The destination will often be reached from an entirely unforeseen direction.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 1953

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