Deck: Navigation Problems

1. A When plotted on a Mercator chart, the great circle track will be convex to the British Isles.
2. B The distance is measured in sixty-mile segments based on the length of a degree of latitude at the mid-latitude and mid-longitude position.
3. C The Northern Hemisphere vertex lies south of Reykjavik.
4. D The great circle track is not appreciably shorter than a rhumb line track.

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