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Sun compass

Sun compass may refer to: * Sun compass in animals, the innate ability of some animals to orientate themselves by the sun * Solar compass, a 19th-century surveying instrument that made use of the sun's direction * Bumstead sun compass, a navigational device invented in the 1920s by Albert H. Bumstead

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Sun compass may refer to: * Sun compass in animals, the innate ability of some animals to orientate themselves by the sun * Solar compass, a 19th-century surveying instrument that made use of the sun's direction * Bumstead sun compass, a navigational device invented in the 1920s by Albert H. Bumstead

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