A compass rose or compass star, sometimes called a wind rose or rose of the winds, is a polar diagram displaying the orientation of the cardinal directions (north, east, south, and west) and their intermediate points. … See more

In the earliest medieval portolan charts of the 14th century, compass roses were depicted as mere collections of color-coded compass rhumb lines: black for the eight main winds, … See more

• The NATO symbol uses a four-pointed rose.
• Outward Bound uses the compass rose as the logo for various schools around the world. See more

Linguistic anthropological studies have shown that most human communities have four points of cardinal direction. The names given to these directions are usually derived from either locally-specific geographic features (e.g. "towards the hills", "towards the … See more

The contemporary compass rose appears as two rings, one smaller and set inside the other. The outside ring denotes true cardinal directions while the smaller inside ring denotes magnetic cardinal directions. True north refers to the geographical location of the See more

• The Compass Rose is a 1982 collection of short stories by Ursula K. Le Guin. See more

• Nautical star
• Pelorus (instrument)
• Points of the compass
• Rhumbline network
• Wind rose See more