"NNE" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... points from the nearest cardinal point. Midway between each cardinal and inter-cardinal point—at an angular distance of 22-1/2 deg. or 2 points, is a point named by combining a cardinal point with an inter-cardinal point. For instance, NNE, ENE, ESE, SSE, SSW, WSW, WNW, NNW. Midway between the last points named and a cardinal or inter-cardinal point, at an angular distance of 11-1/4 deg., is a point which bears the name of that cardinal or inter-cardinal point joined by ...
— Lectures in Navigation • Ernest Gallaudet Draper |
