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| Title: | Orienteering |
| Summary: | A glance at the sport of orienteering |
| Description: | What you need to know about orienteering |
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Blair, Martha (User-6110, mblair)
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| Create Date: | Monday, June 5, 2006 11:29:34 AM EDT |
| Modified Date: | Monday, June 5, 2006 11:29:34 AM EDT |
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| Abstract: | - Orienteering Study Sheet Orienteering is a unique sport that combines compass and map reading with walking and running in a cross-country race in which participants navigate an unfamiliar course.
- Terms Angle of declination- The angle representing the difference between magnetic north and true (or geographic) north.
- True or Grid north is a fixed location (the North Pole) whereas magnetic north is a shifting location, usually identified in the Hudson Bay area of Canada.
- Geographical Map- A regular map that shows a flat portion of the earthÂ’s surface using conventional signs, longitude and latitude degrees, and true north or geographical north.
- Topographical maps- A map that shows a portion of the earthÂ’s surface in reduced form and ...
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| File name: | orientss.doc |
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