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2. Mount Whitney Trail - Wikipedia

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   The round-trip hike for healthy, fit individuals generally lasts about 12 to 14 hours. [6] The trail does not follow the most direct route used by mountaineers along the North Fork of Lone Pine Creek, but rather the easier grade along the main branch of Lone Pine Creek to its source. The trail continues along 97 switchbacks to the Sierra crest ...

3. Geographical distance - Wikipedia

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   Geographical distance or geodetic distance is the distance measured along the surface of the Earth, or the shortest arch length. The formulae in this article calculate distances between points which are defined by geographical coordinates in terms of latitude and longitude. This distance is an element in solving the second (inverse) geodetic ...

4. Great-circle navigation - Wikipedia

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   Orthodromic course drawn on the Earth globe. Great-circle navigation or orthodromic navigation (related to orthodromic course; from Ancient Greek ορθός (orthós) 'right angle' and δρόμος (drómos) 'path') is the practice of navigating a vessel (a ship or aircraft) along a great circle.

5. Geodesic - Wikipedia

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   Klein quartic with 28 geodesics (marked by 7 colors and 4 patterns). In geometry, a geodesic (/ ˌ dʒ iː. ə ˈ d ɛ s ɪ k,-oʊ-,-ˈ d iː s ɪ k,-z ɪ k /) [1] [2] is a curve representing in some sense the shortest [a] path between two points in a surface, or more generally in a Riemannian manifold.

6. Long Way Round - Wikipedia

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   Long Way Round (LWR) is a British television series and book documenting the 19,000-mile (31,000 km) journey of Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman from London to New York City on motorcycles. They travelled eastwards through Europe and Asia, flew to Alaska , and continued by road to New York.

7. Round-trip format conversion - Wikipedia

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   The term round-trip is used in document conversion particularly involving markup languages such as XML and SGML.A successful round-trip consists of converting a document in format A (docA) to one in format B (docB) and then back again to format A (docA′).