Question

You are in a lifeboat boat close to the equator, somewhere south of Hawaii. The pole star is too close to the horizonto be seen, but Orion is in the sky, rather close to the horizon, too, and you know that the 3 conspicuous stars in a line, forming Orions "belt," straddle the celestial equator. How do you find where north is?

Answer 1

the stars of the sky cross from east to west ,
noting where the familiar constellation rises and sets each night, will give a good approximation of west and east, then:
this works best near the equator and has season variation.