File:Orthodromic air route.tif

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English: The shortest way on the surface of the globe is always an orthodrome, an arc segment of a great circle of the sphere. This is why a London–Los Angeles air route flies over Greenland.
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Author Orion 8

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This image is a work of a U.S. military or Department of Defense employee, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain in the United States.

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