what is the shortest route from chicago to london using a globe and mercator
over the north pole
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The shortest is I-80 East.
Take I-65 SOUTH to NASHVILLE.
East
The shortest distance between Anchorage and Moscow is actually almost directly over the North Pole. A flight then will depart Anchorage and fly 4 degrees West of North until it reached near the north pole, when it would then be heading almost directly south.
(One possible route you can take from Moscow) Belarus Poland Germany (Arrive in Belgium)
The Arctic route between New York and Moscow is the most direct route. You can see this if you look at it on a globe, not a flat map, but a sphere.
If the flight is going directly from LAX to Moscow (SVO), the shortest flight path would be the polar route: north out of LAX (13 degrees N), over Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Saskatchewan, west of Hudson's Bay, cross the west end of Baffin Bay, over the middle of Greenland, the northern latitudes of Norway, Sweden, and Finland, and in to Moscow. Of course, specific airlines may have their own routes because of requirements to check in at certain points, so this should not be construed as a representation of how any specific flight will go.
Take I-65 SOUTH to Nashville bypassing Indianapolis via I-465 SOUTH.
The Northern Sea Route became not only the shortest waterway between theEuropean part of Russia and the Far East