Baseplate style compass

Ideal for outdoor activities like orienteering hunting camping map reading fishing hiking night fishing night flying backpacking features inch and millimeter scales for mapping or plotting protractor compass for measuring direction lanyard hole on the base plate for easy carrying lanyard included made of plastic light weight and portable colour transparent dimension 12.5cm x 6cm. Before you can use a compass navigate you need be familiar with the main features. 1 baseplate the plastic base. 2 compass housing also known as the compass wheel with a mark every two degrees covering 360 degrees and n-s-e-w the cardinal points. 3 magnetic needle red end for north white for south. 4 compass lines on the bottom of the baseplate also called orienting lines. 5 orienting arrow fixed and aligned north within the compass housing 6 line extension of the direction of travel arrow. 7 direction of travel arrow the big arrow at the end of the baseplate. 8 map scales 1 25 000 1 50 000 and metric measurer...