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Great Circle Map Interactive tool for plotting great circle routes on a sphere. Great Circle Mapper Interactive tool for plotting great circle routes. Great Circle Calculator deriving (initial) course and distance between two points. Great Circle Distance Graphical tool for drawing great circles over maps. Also shows distance and azimuth in a ...
A diagram illustrating great-circle distance (drawn in red) between two points on a sphere, P and Q. Two antipodal points, u and v are also shown. The great-circle distance, orthodromic distance, or spherical distance is the distance between two points on a sphere, measured along the great-circle arc between them. This arc is the shortest path ...
The distinction between rhumb (sailing) distance and great circle (true) distance was clearly understood by Mercator. (See Legend 12 on the 1569 map.) He stressed that the rhumb line distance is an acceptable approximation for true great circle distance for courses of short or moderate distance, particularly at lower latitudes.
Map Men is an edutainment mini-series [2] [3] currently in its fourth series, which is created, written, and presented by Jay Foreman and Mark Cooper-Jones. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] A mix of comedy and geography , [ 4 ] its videos regularly attract 1-5 million views on YouTube .
The distance covered was 8,811 kilometres (5,475 mi). [2] The following month, another Soviet crew led by Mikhail Gromov retraced the transpolar route [ ru ] , extending the distance to the world record-breaking 10,148 kilometers (6,302 miles), landing near San Jacinto , California, in the United States .
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The disk bounded by a great circle is called a great disk: it is the intersection of a ball and a plane passing through its center. In higher dimensions, the great circles on the n-sphere are the intersection of the n-sphere with 2-planes that pass through the origin in the Euclidean space R n + 1. Half of a great circle may be called a great ...
The map on the right shows, in red, a typical, non-competitive, route for a sailing circumnavigation of the world by the trade winds and the Suez and Panama canals; overlaid in yellow are the points antipodal to all points on the route. It can be seen that the route roughly approximates a great circle, and passes through two pairs of antipodal ...