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Furuno is also a master of navigation, with a range of products that can easily guide any vessel owner to any place on earth. Like a family of microprocessor-controlled loran, satnav and Omega receivers that produce reams of navigational computations. Auto- matic direction finders covering frequencies from the beacon band through the marine

VHF service. Plotters, both paper and color video units, that not only pinpoint your posi- tion, but also permit visual readout of various event marks, waypoints, lat/lon or loran grids, and much more. Even weatherfax receivers that let you see what's coming before it's there.

Soaring gracefully above the clouds, the arctic tern is a master of navigation, regularly migrating some 22,000 miles a year between its northern nesting colonies and the south polar seas. Along the way, terns use every trick in the book—and a host of natural resources.

The sun and even perhaps the stars act as compass references, with the tern's internal biological clock correcting for apparent shifts due to changing latitudes. The Coriolis effect from the earth's rotation may react on the bird's inner ear, and one theory suggests that some migratory birds are even sensitive to the earth's magnetic field.

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