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Image of a loxodrome, or rhumb line, spiraling towards the North Pole

In navigation, a rhumb line, rhumb (/rʌm/), or loxodrome is an arc crossing all meridians of longitude at the same angle, that is, a path with constant bearing as measured relative to true north.

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Rhumb line

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In navigation, a rhumb line, rhumb (/rʌm/), or loxodrome is an arc crossing all meridians of longitude at the same angle, that is, a path with constant...

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The Rhumb Line

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The Rhumb Line is the debut LP for the Syracuse-based indie rock band Ra Ra Riot. Recorded in late 2007 with Ryan Hadlock in Woodinville, WA, the band...

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Rhumb

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Rhumb may refer to: Rhumb line, a navigational path with a constant bearing one of the 16 or 32 points of the compass (now rare) a nautical unit of angular...

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Mercator projection

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on the Earth. A straight line on the Mercator map at angle α to the meridians is a rhumb line. When α = π/2 or 3π/2 the rhumb corresponds to one of the...

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Rhumbline network

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unambiguously called windrose lines, since they are not true rhumb lines by the modern definition. A rhumb line in the modern sense is only straight on a chart drawn...

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Great circle

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Adam; Kopcz, Piotr (2014). Loxodrome (Rhumb Line), Orthodrome (Great Circle), Great Ellipse and Geodetic Line (Geodesic) in Navigation. USA: CRC Press...

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Portolan chart

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books of sailing directions. Other names that have been proposed include rhumb line charts, compass charts or loxodromic charts whereas modern French scholars...

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Cantino planisphere

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represented according to the portolan-chart model ). The construction of the rhumb line system in the Cantino planisphere uses two circles (some charts use only...

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Ra Ra Riot

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they had signed to Barsuk Records. They released their debut album, The Rhumb Line, on August 19, 2008, in North America, and on September 22, 2008, in Europe...

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List of abstract strategy games

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Join five (aka. morpion solitaire, cross 'n' lines, line game) † Quarto Qubic Renju † Rhumb Line † Score four Quantum tic-tac-toe Tic-tac-toe † (aka noughts...

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Suspended in Gaffa

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appears on Syracuse-based indie rock band Ra Ra Riot's debut album The Rhumb Line. The song was also covered by garage rock band The Figgs on their 2019...

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Loxodromic navigation

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oblique, and δρóμος, path) is a method of navigation by following a rhumb line, a curve on the surface of the Earth that follows the same angle at the...

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Sphere

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the Mercator projection. A rhumb line is not a spherical spiral. Except for some simple cases, the formula of a rhumb line is complicated. A Clelia curve...

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List of curves

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Isochrone of Leibniz[1] Isochrone of Varignon[2] Lamé curve Pursuit curve Rhumb line Sinusoid Spirals Archimedean spiral Cornu spiral Cotes' spiral Fermat's...

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Tropic of Capricorn

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from the original on 12 June 2017. Retrieved 10 March 2012. RhumbSolve online rhumb line calculator Archived 3 December 2016 at the Wayback Machine. "Reversing...

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Marine navigation

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This point is also known as Fantasy point. Navigation that follows a rhumb line — that is, all meridians are cut at the same angle. On a nautical chart...

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Gallery of curves

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(transcendental) Catenary Clélies Cochleoid Cycloid Horopter Isochrone Pursuit curve Rhumb line Syntractrix Tractrix Trochoid Archimedean spiral Cornu spiral Fermat's...

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Spiral

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known to Pappus, too. Remark: a rhumb line is not a spherical spiral in this sense. Spherical spiral Loxodrome A rhumb line (also known as a loxodrome or...

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Mercator 1569 world map

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This 'correction', whereby constant bearing sailing courses on the sphere (rhumb lines) are mapped to straight lines on the plane map, characterizes the...

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List of Equinox episodes

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French yacht designer Bruno Fehrenbach; he sailed the Atlantic between the Rhumb Line Route and the Great Circle Route; some yachts made the journey to Newport...

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Lord Edward FitzGerald

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rhumb line (and today 365 miles by road) in twenty-six days, and established a shorter practicable route than that hitherto followed. The rhumb line crosses...

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Plane sailing

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more general meaning of any activity that is relatively straightforward. Rhumb line Traverse sailing Parallel sailing Mid-latitude sailing Mercator Sailing...

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Lawrence Weiner

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New York March 22 – December 9, 2007, Lawrence Weiner: Inherent in the Rhumb Line at National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, England April 22 - November, 2022...

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