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2. Silva compass - Wikipedia

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   Silva Sweden AB is an outdoors products company that sells handheld compasses and other navigational equipment including GPS tools, mapping software, aircraft altimeters, and marine navigation tools. Silva's founders - Gunnar Tillander, Alvar Kjellström, Arvid Kjellström, and Björn Kjellström - invented the hugely popular orienteering ...

3. Hand compass - Wikipedia

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   Floating-card compass with prismatic sight (bearing 220° through eyepiece). The marine hand compass, or hand bearing compass|hand-bearing compass as it is termed in nautical use, has been used by small-boat or inshore sailors since at least the 1920s to keep a running course or to record precise bearings to landmarks on shore in order to determine position via the resection technique.

4. Ostego Bay Foundation Marine Science Center - Wikipedia

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   Ostego Bay Foundation Marine Science Center is in Fort Myers, Florida. It is at 718 Fisherman’s Wharf on San Carlos Island between Fort Myers Beach and the mainland. The marine science center includes exhibits and an aquarium. [1] The building is being renovated in 2023 after Hurricane Ian but the foundation's programs are continuing. The ...

5. Bearing compass - Wikipedia

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   A bearing compass, is a nautical instrument used to determine the bearing of observed objects. (Bearing: angle formed by the north and the visual to a certain object in the sea or ashore). (Bearing: angle formed by the north and the visual to a certain object in the sea or ashore).

6. Pelorus (instrument) - Wikipedia

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   In marine navigation, a pelorus is a reference tool for maintaining bearing of a vessel at sea. It is a "simplified compass" without a directive element, suitably mounted and provided with vanes to permit observation of relative bearings. [1] The instrument was named for one Pelorus, said to have been the pilot for Hannibal, circa 203 BC.

7. Irish pub in Fort Myers goes beyond beer with creative and ...

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   Sample menu. Throw Bread on Me, $9. The Willingboro (ham sammie), $16. Irish Twins, $23. Beer & Cheese Flight, $19. Letterkenny cobb, $17. Guinness stout, $8