Orienteering stuff for sale

If you're looking at purchasing a beginner compass for orienteering purposes, we recommend Silva Field or Ranger or Suunto A10 or A30.  These compasses double up as being good for tramping and learning how to take bearings.  They're more robust than thumb compasses as they don't tend to break when you fall over. 

We recommend you purchase a thumb compass once you're serious about orienteering.

Don't just borrow an old compass from someone else until you are sure it isn't a Northern Hemisphere one (Southern Hemisphere compasses are weighted quite differently), and that you've cross-checked against a functional one that it is pointing properly to North.  Sometimes the needle can be dislodged and it is pointing somewhere else!

Note that orienteering maps are all aligned to Magnetic North, and compasses point to Magnetic North.  

GPS on phones, watches, etc, usually point to True North.