Triangulating your position

June 2019

Read more from

June 2019

Photo: Noel Bigwood
Triangulation is a useful technique to work out, or confirm, where you are on the map. View our visdeo tutorial at the end of this article. To begin, you need to take a bearing to a natural or manmade feature you can identify: 1. Open your map and identify features you can see in the […]
Heather Grady

About the author

Heather Grady

Heather Grady is an instructor with Outdoor Training New Zealand

More From Skills

Related Topics

Similar Articles

You can always change your plans

Back to school

Lessons learned the hard way

Trending Now

Otamatapaio Hut, Oteake Conservation Park

The 2026 Wilderness Outdoor Photographer of the Year competition

Dirt bike trial on Tongariro Northern Circuit gets approval

A majestic coastal walk

Knockin’ on heaven’s door

Subscribe!
Each issue of Wilderness celebrates Aotearoa’s great outdoors — written and photographed with care, not algorithms.Subscribe and help keep our wild stories alive.

Join Wilderness. You'll see more, do more and live more.

Already a subscriber?  to keep reading. Or…

34 years of inspiring New Zealanders to explore the outdoors. Don’t miss out — subscribe today.

Your subscriber-only benefits:

All this for as little as $6.75/month.

1

free articles left this month.

Already a subscriber? Login Now