Garmin GPS 12 Personal Navigator

Customer Reviews:

When i served in Iraq with the British army i used this to pin-point my location to get communications in at vital moments when faced with a plain desert. I think anything less rugged would not have been up to the job, which could of compromised the lifes of my self and fellow soldiers.
Louis Simpkins, UK

The great joy of these earlier Garmins is that by simply switching them on and leaving them they will aquire satellites and automatically deliver a display of your current location ... which is after all what most hillwalkers need when adrift in bad terrain and/or conditions. Later models have many bells and whistles but that all-important 'where am I?' information is buried more deeply in the menus. It delivers the goods and, once confidence is gained, can offer all the usual extended features that one might reasonably require.
Mike Rochester - Lochinver

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The GPS 12's rugged, waterproof case features military-tough construction, and its rocker keypad design provides true one-hand operation that keeps you on the move-day or night, rain or shine. It also features 500 available waypoints, 1024 track log points, and nine proximity waypoints, to mark and steer clear of dangerous areas. The innovative Garmin TracBack function enables you to turn your track log into an instant breadcrumb trail, allowing you to reverse your route in order to quickly navigate back home.

As an added bonus, the GPS 12 also boasts a position averaging feature which diminishes the effects of Selective Availability (SA) upon position error, and displays a value that reflects the estimated accuracy of the averaged position.

Includes a host of advanced navigation features like enhanced moving map graphics, average and maximum speed data, and trip timers, and you have all the things that make the GPS 12 a pure bred Garmin-innovation, performance, and value.