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    Sextants

    April 14, 2026April 14, 2026 by Erica
    Antique sextant navigation instrument used for celestial navigation at sea

    What Are Sextants?

    Sextants are traditional navigation instruments used by sailors to determine their position at sea. Long before GPS, sextants allowed navigators to calculate latitude and longitude using the Sun, Moon, stars, and the horizon.

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    Categories Discover Tags barometers, GPS, location, maritime navigation, nautical instrumentation, navigation, postion, sextant, sextants, suns position 1 Comment
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