Marine Navigation

Marine Navigation

1. The moving of a vessel from one place to another

2. Position: It can be defined by coordinates of latitude and longitude

3. Latitude: Angular distance from the Equator, measured northward or southward ...

4. Longitude: Angular distance between the Prime meridian and the meridian of a point on the Earth

   • measured Eastward or Westward.

5. Positions are expressed in degrees and minutes of latitude and longitude.

6. Direction is the position of one point relative to another.

7. Course: Horizontal direction in which a vessel is intended to be steered.

8. Distance is the length of the rhumb line connecting two places.

9. Bearing: Direction of one terrestrial point from another from another, expressed as angular distance from 000 degrees clockwise through 360 degrees.

   • Heading: Direction in which a vessel is pointed at any given moment.

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