{"id":108,"date":"2020-11-23T16:43:41","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T16:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/?p=108"},"modified":"2020-12-08T08:35:33","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T08:35:33","slug":"cardinal-and-inter-cardinal-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/2020\/11\/23\/cardinal-and-inter-cardinal-points\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinal and intercardinal points"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the days of sail it was virtually impossible to steer a course accurately to within a degree. As a result the compass was divided into thirty two equal \u201cpoints\u201d, each 11\u00bc\u00b0 wide. The four major points, namely north, south, east and west, are referred to as the four cardinal points of the compass. The following diagram shows how the compass was divided and what each point was called:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-134\" src=\"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/11\/10.1.4.2_fig_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/11\/10.1.4.2_fig_1.jpg 900w, https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/11\/10.1.4.2_fig_1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/11\/10.1.4.2_fig_1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/11\/10.1.4.2_fig_1-219x146.jpg 219w, https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/11\/10.1.4.2_fig_1-50x33.jpg 50w, https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/11\/10.1.4.2_fig_1-113x75.jpg 113w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/>Starting from North, the points were named clockwise as follows:<br \/>\n<strong>North.<\/strong><br \/>\nNorth by east.<br \/>\nNorth north east.<br \/>\nNorth east by north<br \/>\nNorth east.<br \/>\nNorth east by east.<br \/>\nEast north east.<br \/>\nEast by north.<br \/>\n<strong>East.<\/strong><br \/>\nEast by south.<br \/>\nEast south east.<br \/>\nSouth east by east.<br \/>\nSouth east.<br \/>\nSouth east by south.<br \/>\nSouth south east.<br \/>\nSouth by east.<br \/>\n<strong>South.<\/strong><br \/>\nSouth by west.<br \/>\nSouth south west.<br \/>\nSouth west by south.<br \/>\nSouth west.<br \/>\nSouth west by west.<br \/>\nWest south west.<br \/>\nWest by south.<br \/>\n<strong>West.<\/strong><br \/>\nWest by north.<br \/>\nWest north west.<br \/>\nNorth west by west.<br \/>\nNorth west.<br \/>\nNorth west by north.<br \/>\nNorth north west.<br \/>\nNorth by west.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the days of sail it was virtually impossible to steer a course accurately to within a degree. As a result the compass was divided into thirty two equal \u201cpoints\u201d, each 11\u00bc\u00b0 wide. The four major points, namely north, south, east and west, are referred to as the four cardinal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,20,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-10-1-navigation","category-10-1-4-measurement-of-direction","category-10-1-4-2-cardinal-and-inter-cardinal-points"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions\/225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}