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  2. Nautical chart - Wikipedia

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    A nautical chart or hydrographic chart is a graphic representation of a sea region or water body and adjacent coasts or banks. Depending on the scale of the chart, ...

  3. History of navigation - Wikipedia

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    Nautical charts and textual descriptions known as sailing directions have been in use in one form or another since the sixth century BC. [14] Nautical charts using stereographic and orthographic projections date back to the second century BC. [14] In 1900, the Antikythera mechanism was recovered from Antikythera wreck. This mechanism was built ...

  4. Compass rose - Wikipedia

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    A common compass rose as found on a nautical chart showing both true north (using a nautical star symbol) and magnetic north with magnetic variation.Also notice the correspondence between the 32-point rose (inner circle) and the modern 0–360° graduations.

  5. OpenSeaMap - Wikipedia

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    OpenSeaMap is a software project collecting freely usable nautical information and geospatial data to create a worldwide nautical chart. This chart is available on the OpenSeaMap website, and can also be downloaded for use as an electronic chart for offline applications. [1] The project is part of OpenStreetMap. OpenSeaMap is part of the ...

  6. Marine navigation - Wikipedia

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    Marine navigation is the art and science of steering a ship from a starting point (sailing) to a destination, efficiently and responsibly. It is an art because of the skill that the navigator must have to avoid the dangers of navigation, and it is a science because it is based on physical, mathematical, oceanographic, cartographic, astronomical ...

  7. Marshall Islands stick chart - Wikipedia

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    Stick charts were made and used by the Marshallese to navigate the Pacific Ocean by canoe off the coast of the Marshall Islands. The charts represented major ocean swell patterns and the ways the islands disrupted those patterns, typically determined by sensing disruptions in ocean swells by islanders during sea navigation.

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