Geodesics and how someone can end up in New Orleans by traveling East from the westernmost point in Alaska?

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Geodesics and how someone can end up in New Orleans by traveling East from the westernmost point in Alaska?

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Answer 1

Could you review your question? If you travel with a true heading of 090° (easterly) from anywhere in Alaska, you will not end up in New Orleans. I do not think you would even cross the Canadian border if you travelled east from anywhere in Alaska.

Sure, you could travel by rhumb line or great circle from Alaska to New Orleans. You will have an easterly component to your course, but will not be travelling dead easterly.