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[edit] Pacific GCR

Do you understand what the Great-circle route is? Chicago is NOT on it. The Pacific Great Circle roughly follows the ring of fire. You either don't understand where the Pacific-GCR is, or you don't understand sentence structure. You are putting Chicago (or previously the Midwest) in the Pacific-GCR in that sentence.

Where in the article that you used as a reference, does it say "Great Circle Route"? Nowhere.

Airline great circle track at top, jet stream track at bottom
Airline great circle track at top, jet stream track at bottom

I re-wrote the sentence, and made a new sentence for your Midwest reference.

WikiDon 20:18, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] great circle through prince rupert and shanghai

Stating that Prince Rupert is on THE (one and only) Great Circle route to Asia is incorrect since there are infinitely many Great Circle routes between a point in Asia (actually any point not on the west coast) and points on the west coast. I think what is meant by writing that Prince Rupert is "on the Great Circle route between North America and Asia" is that, "of all the Great Circle routes between Asia and the west coast, the one passing through Prince Rupert is the shortest." PRPA CEO Don Krusel explained it best using his globe-&-string analogy described here http://www.locationcanada.com/asiaPacific.htm

The geographic advantage of connecting to Asia through Canada is most dramatic in the small but growing dot on the map known as Port Rupert. Don Krusel, president and CEO of the Prince Rupert Port Authority, offers an exercise to demonstrate. “Take the short string approach,” he says. Grab a piece of string and a globe. Pick a point in the middle of the continent — say, Chicago — and hold one end of the string there on the globe. Pull the string taut and place the other end over a major Asia–Pacific location, such as Shanghai. “The string will go right through the Port of Prince Rupert and the transportation corridor that links Prince Rupert with Asia and Prince Rupert with the rest of North America,” he says.

Thus, Prince Rupert is on THE Great Circle route between Chicago and Shanghai. The PRPA even has a graphic showing it on its home page: http://www.rupertport.com/

He doesn't use the term "Great Circle" but that's obviously (obvious isn't it?) the description of a Great-Circle path. If anyone wants to really split hairs though note that the Earth isn't a perfect sphere and thus the shortest distance between two points couldn't be called a Great Circle. Unless I'm mistaken geodesic curves are only referred to as Great Circles when they're on the surface of a sphere.

[edit] Pacific Gateway

This doesn't look good:

Pacific Gateway Strategy


Try either:

Pacific Gateway strategy

or

Pacific Gateway Strategy


Which do you like better?

WikiDon 20:03, 13 October 2007 (UTC)