Q&A for How to Find Direction Without a Compass

Track the location and movement of the sun in the sky over an hour or two. The sun and moon both generally move east to west.

The side of a tree that is the fullest or most grown.

When you can't use the sun, moon, or stars to navigate, observing nature is often the best way to find your direction. Looking to see which side of the tree is heaviest, as described above, can help you differentiate between north and south.

You can use this fact for your essay: in the Southern Hemisphere, there is a star constellation called the southern cross (it looks like a kite with a tail). Wherever the kites tails points is South.

When you can't use the sun, moon, or stars to navigate, observing nature is often the best way to find your direction. Looking to see which side of the tree is heaviest, as described above, can help you differentiate between north and south.

The southern hemisphere is the bottom half of the globe. It consists of Australia, Antarctica, most of South America, and some parts of Africa and Asia.

The southern-most tip of Sri Lanka is almost six degrees north of the equator. That puts it in the Northern Hemisphere.

Pakistan is located in the northern and eastern hemispheres.

You would be facing North. The Sun rises in the East, meaning that If you are looking directly at it, North will be off to your left.