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No, Trackers are employed here, to search for people, especially in semi arid regions.

Tracking them. Once bodies are found, or people go missing, authorities piece together the circumstances surrounding the cause, to save inquests etc.

I agree totally with you. People really need to learn proper Navigation for outdoor activities. :-)

some hunters over this way died because they followed the rising sun away from camp, hunted all day, then followed the setting sun back to camp (they were kilometres away). The point to survival...

Fair enough. I shall work on that one.

Really? What does 'right' mean?

You Yanks are way too polite.

We'd just say…."you're a ****in wanker mate".



Relax mate, new dudes always seem to upset the apple cart at first. No harm...

Madmax, that exact same reasoning has killed people. They follow the rising sun out for a hunt, and follow the setting sun back to camp at sunset, and wonder why they are 'lost'.

Not going to...

NSW has the same time zone over more than 1500km's, can someone PLEASE tell me how a compass will tell me what time it is. Declination will change a couple of degrees, over that same distance. The...

Can someone PLEASE explain how having a compass can tell you what time it is? That's about the stupidest thing I've ever read.

maybe a sextant yes , but a COMPASS?

All a compass tells you, is...