Assume you board a plane in San Francisco for a flight to London. Briefly describe your great-circle flight route between the two cities (plotted on the map in Figure 4.5b). What are some of the features over which you fly? Describe the landscape and water below.
(b) Mercator/cylindrical projection.
Northeastward crossing Hudson Bay; east across the southern tip of Greenland; southeastward between Ireland and Scotland to London.
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