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After pointing due east, and traveling continually forward in a straight line across the Earth’s surface, the next country you hit after you leave North America is Australia. The most obvious interpretation of 'straight line'Notice also, just intuitively, how you’ll have walked the full circumference of the sphere: a ‘ great circle ’. A line of constant latitudeTo give an extreme example: imagine driving in a 10 meter radius around the North Pole.

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