The eight cardinal points

The eight cardinal points

In Standard Four, you learnt about four cardinal points. From the four cardinal points we can derive four inter-cardinal points. If you draw a line between North and East, the direction will be North-East. In the same way, we get South-East if we draw a line halfway between South and East. Likewise, South-West is between South and West and North-West is the line drawn between North and West. This will make a total of eight cardinal points as shown in Figure . The cardinal points of the world are also known as cardinal directions. The direction of a place is automatically shown by an instrument known as a compass.

Eight cardinal points of the world