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What is Orienteering? Orienteering is a challenging outdoor activity using a COMPASS and a detailed TOPOGRAPHIC MAP to through a series of checkpoints

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What is Orienteering?

• Orienteering is a challenging outdoor activity using a COMPASS and a detailed TOPOGRAPHIC MAP to through a series of checkpoints called CONTROLS as quickly as you can.

• IT IS A RACE!!!!

• It is extremely popular around the world

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History of Orienteering

• Orienteering is a competitive sport that originated as a military activity in Scandinavia in the early 1900’s

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History of Orienteering

• 1919- Major ERNST KILLANDER of Sweden devised a cross-country competition where runners not only ran a course but had to choose there own routes using a map and compass.

• Considered the Father of Orienteering

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History of Orienteering1941-1943- Orienteering events were held at Dartmouth College- **First events in Uniited States.

1961- The International Orienteering Federation was formed

1966- The US Military Academy at West Point began intramural orienteering competitions.

1988- Orienteering was recognized by Olympic Committee as a Class C sport

Currently there are over 60 major Orienteering clubs in the United States

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Orienteering Terms

• Topographic Map - Map showing natural and/or physical features of a landscape, including altitude contours. Also called contour map.

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Orienteering Terms

• Control Point – It is a marker you must find while navigating any course utilizing a map and compass

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Magnetic North

• The northerly direction in the earth's magnetic field indicated by the north-seeking pole of a compass needle.

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Terrain

• Vertical and horizontal dimension of land surface

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Parts of a Compass

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Orienteering for Competition• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZOI9kKuA4I&feature=player_de

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Orienteering here at NP High School

• Due to the fact that we do not have maps of our school grounds we will be doing a modified form of orienteering called “Fixed Point Orienteering”

• We will teach you how to read a compass• We will teach you how to pace• We wil teach you how to do a triangle walk• We will have you navigate for time 5 different

fixed point courses using different controls