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Interesting. I naively expected it to take the shortest/great circle route from Europe straight across northern Russia to Japan, but no, it actually loops the o
by dustintrex 5y ago
Interesting. I naively expected it to take the shortest/great circle route from Europe straight across northern Russia to Japan, but no, it actually loops the other way around the pole via Iceland and Canada.
- fennecfoxen 5y agoLooks like there would be fewer opportunities to stop and connect to existing networks if you went that way.
- Sami_Lehtinen 5y agoOriginal route plan was exactly that, but there are reason why that route wasn't taken. This plan has been open for a decade aka ROTACS. But Russia started to build their own cable Polar Express - https://www.arctictoday.com/work-on-a-russian-trans-arctic-fiber-optic-cable-starts-this-spring/ https://www.arctictoday.com/work-on-a-russian-trans-arctic-f...