Word: compassable
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...impenetrable' miles" from Barranquilla to Panama were covered by compass only-true-and he "hacked," "ferried," "pontooned" and carried his Ford (in pieces?) on the very sizable "mule" Lloyd's registered S. S. Venezuela of the Royal Netherlands Steamship...
Bumstead's Compass...
Says TIME: "Navigator Beliakoff used the sun compass invented by Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd...
Fact is the sun compass was invented for Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd by unassuming, expert Chief Cartographer Alfred H. Bumstead of the National Geographic Society. The worthy Admiral has publicly said that without it he could never have reached the Poles. Modest Cartographer Bumstead would never tell you this himself...
TIME erred in crediting the invention of the sun compass to Admiral Byrd. It was devised by Cartographer Bumstead in collaboration with George Washington Littlehales, chief engineer of the Naval Hydrographic Office, after Byrd requested something better for his purposes than the magnetic compass. The Bumstead-Littlehales sun compass, which contains a clock and a latitude adjustment, works on the principle that the compass direction of the sun at any time of day depends on the latitude and the sidereal time...