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1. "Well, I might 'ave 'eard a strange noise t'other night," he told the Sextant slowly

2. navigation table where Knut kept his sextant

3. know exactly where we were, and then continued to the sextant

4. Sextans - The Sextant

5. Kenneth reckoned the ship boasted a sextant, a compass and little else; we never thought to ask about life-jackets or lifeboats!

6. Ann looked around her critically once they were up in the attic: four skylight windows covered by wooden panels faced the four cardinal points, making for decent observation positions, while a small table and chair sat in a corner, with a pile of parchments and two large bound, leather-covered books resting on the table, along with pens, an ink bottle and a primitive sextant

7. Dar had used a compass, dividers, rulers, triangles, and a sextant in school; but this equipment had him clueless

8. You're familiar with some of them, such as the thermometer, which gives the temperature inside the Nautilus; the barometer, which measures the heaviness of the outside air and forecasts changes in the weather; the humidistat, which indicates the degree of dryness in the atmosphere; the storm glass, whose mixture decomposes to foretell the arrival of tempests; the compass, which steers my course; the sextant, which takes the sun's altitude and tells me my latitude; chronometers, which allow me to calculate my longitude; and finally, spyglasses for both day and night, enabling me to scrutinize every point of the horizon once the Nautilus has risen to the surface of the waves

9. Raising his sextant, Captain Nemo took the altitude of the sun, which would give him his latitude

10. A few minutes before the sun passed its zenith, Captain Nemo raised his sextant and took his sights with the utmost precision

11. “Each time I made a sextant calibration,” wrote navigator John Weller, “I would open the escape hatch on the flight deck and stand on my navigation desk and the radio operator’s desk while [the radioman] held on to my legs so I would not be sucked out of the plane

12. It was Mitchell’s duty to calculate the plane’s position, relay this to the radioman so he could send a distress signal, and strap the sextant and celestial navigation kit to his body

13. He kept getting out his sextant (an instrument which tells you what part of the ocean you are in) and making calculations