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A compass rose adorns the square in front of the Monument to the Discoveries. Made of black and red lioz limestone, it has a 50 m diameter, and contains a 14 m-wide planisphere decorated with vegetal elements, 5 small compass roses, 3 blowing faces personifying the wind, a mermaid, a mythical fish and Neptune with a trident and a trumpet, riding a marine beast. Dates, ships and caravels mark the main routes of the Portuguese expansion between the 15th and 16th centuries. The background consists of ‘open sea’ waves, a motif commonly used for the typical Portuguese cobblestone pavements. The compass rose was designed by architect Luís Cristino da Silva, and bestowed by the Republic of South Africa, which joined in the commemorations for the Infante. Inaugurated on 5 August 1960
Compass Travel Reg DK09 DZF waits in Mardens overflow yard for its turn for attention
8 February 2017
The ever challenging compass pose at DeadVlei, Namibia. Want to see more? check out this short clip by Nic and give it the thumbs up! :)
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Ink and ecoline ink on paper. A 'South pointing fish' or 'South-governor' was an early (200 BCE-100 CE) Chinese Compass.
Where are you headed? If you don’t know, what a wonderful surprise could lie ahead. Being lost can lead you on the most amazing adventures :)
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119 Photos in 2019 - 27. Compass
Compass Bus GX62CNN in Saltdean coming to the end of service 47 from Brighton Station via County Hospital - Brighton Marina. 08th May 2014.
Vilkanos looks built for the 48mm 650b Compass Switchbacks. Not surprising, the original idea being built for 42mm but able to squeeze a 54mm. So baby bear, as always, gets it just right.
Why not a chicken compass?? #icad2016 Day9 Compass (phMartenLiquidWatercolors, oil pastels, brush pen)
This is my Silva compass. Part of its perspex base has broken off. It's little used now that Google Maps and OS maps online make instruments like this almost obsolete. However, it does not need batteries, nor does it lose its signal, so still useful as a backup. Probably about fifty years old now and still working.
Pilot G-Tec-C4 rollerball
One spot of Cass Art watercolour
Seawhite A4 concertina sketchbook
Inktober '21 No 16
#Inktober2021
I was coming up from a dive when I spotted this. The camera was set to a white balance for deeper water (more red, so the jellyfish was whiter in reality), but I thought that the effect was nice. Garnish Pier, County Cork, August 2007.
Essential if one wants to fly in the right direction.
Whenever a significant change is made to an airframe it is necessary to Swing the compass to determine the small errors that residual magnetic fields in the structure have on the compass.
Those errors are recorded on the Compass Card. As can be seen from this card, the errors in this compass are only one or two degrees.
#76 Magnetic for 118 pictures in 2018
Transport for Macro Mondays
WEMBLEY 26/02/2023 Newcastle United vs Manchester United. Around 160 coaches turned up for the Carabao Cup Final and as usual a good selection of makes and models of varying ages came to have their photos taken by the assembled bus photting community. Highlights for this visit were a pair of McGill's Tourismos, a 1994 Jonckheere Monaco that has recently been on a couple of aid trips to Ukraine, 3x new Volvo 9700s for Sky Coaches, a mysterious Van Hool Astromega, and a suitably decorated minibus in NUFC colours!
When taking photos of the partially frozen Little Angelesy Lake this morning I found this compass rose. It is in the footpath at the western end of the lake. A Google search has so far failed to find out any information about it. I just like the way it points north towards the far end of Scotland (Rose Ness is at the south eastern end of Orkney mainland) and south to Capetown and then to a local bonfire!
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"no direction, I am a compass
constantly spinning
constantly searching for the end
never reaching our destination
but the goal was never when
or where
or who;
it was only you"
In September, 2020, Compass Bus received fourteen Enviro 200s on hire from Mistral Bus and Coach for use on additional school services introduced to allow social distancing on service buses. A further three had been added by the year end. YY66 PCX had been new to Crosville in Weston-super-mare and was making itself useful on rail replacement between Chichester and Portsmouth today, 20th February 2021.
The National Maritime Museum in Amsterdam.
The glass roofing:
Its self-supporting construction is made up of thousands of pieces of glass in a metal frame.
Roof Facts:
- Self-sustaining construction of 34 x 34 metres.
-Inspired by the compass lines on old nautical charts.
-160.000 kg steel and 40.000 kg glass.
City: Amsterdam.
Country: Netherlands.
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Early morning reflection.
Poznan, Poland
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