The Nautical Encyclopedia
Patterson’s Illustrated Nautical Encyclopedia — Howard Patterson, 1891

Great Circle Tracks

Sea Terms

Lines trending east and west traced on charts, always concave to the equator, and which, allowing for the spherical figure of the earth, show the shortest route between two places situated to the eastward and westward of each other. (See Charts.)

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