One Sextant, One Doubtful Watch, 16 Days: The Navigation That Saved the Crew

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Captain Frank Worsley navigated the 800-mile open-boat crossing to South Georgia using a 1903-era sextant and a watch he couldn't verify was keeping accurate time. Sixteen days at sea destroyed every other piece of navigation equipment aboard, but his celestial work and dead reckoning brought them within sight of land…

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