During the late 1920s and early 1930s, the US Depa... ...constructed on the ground along the way as visual navigational aids for the planes flying the mail route. There...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/05/02/What-Are-These-Huge-Concrete-Arrows-in-the-Desert-For/
The story of Holly, the cat who came home from 200 miles away, is quite amazing. Scientists don't understand how she did it, although they have some ideas to explore."Any animal that comes back to the right place after a...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/01/26/5-Amazing-Animal-Navigators/
Ancient mariners aren't the only ones that used the stars to navigate. It turns out that the lowly dung beetle does as well when it rolls its ball of muck in a Moonless night:...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/01/26/Dung-Beetles-Use-the-Milky-Way-to-Navigate/
Where I live, directions to place you've never been usually comes with the caveat "You can't miss it." That phrase is a real downer, because when you hear it, you're doomed to become lost. Then when I find the place I'm...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/11/07/Why-is-it-so-hard-to-give-good-directions/
David Derbyshire writes in The Daily Mail that anc... ...ent Britons may have developed a sophistated land navigation system among various sites and markers. Amateur... ...f that the landmarks were deliberately created as navigational aides. Many were built within sight of each other...
http://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/17/did-prehistoric-britain-have-a-land-navigation-network/
When you approach the North Pole, compasses don't... ...c Ice Cap, are having to use alternate methods of navigation . To measure wind direction, they are using a pair...
http://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/30/lacy-lingerie-helps-find-north-pole/
