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When Google Navigation tells you to "head North-East".
I am a fool who bought an Android phone without a magnetic compass.
I mean at that point just ask what time it is, and then pair that with the knowledge that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, and boom. You have a general sense of direction.
Ah crap, it's noon
Shadows point north in the northern hemisphere and south in the southern hemisphere
I'm in the tropics
Drop bears attack from the South.
I'm in a place with an ecosystem that can actually be taken seriously.