Right? Well, not exactly. A compass is designed to point in the general direction of magnetic north, which isn't actually true north. The difference between magnetic north and true north is ...

As I mentioned, bearings are the direction or angle as measured in degrees from a reference point. To take a bearing, lay ...

Directions measured from the geographic poles are called true directions.” The magnetic north pole where the magnetic compass points is not in the same location as the geographic north pole ...

The four main points on a compass are: north, east, south and west. A compass is used to work out direction. A four-point compass can give a rough direction whereas a sixteen-point compass is much ...