On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:54:19 -0300, "Don White"
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On 18 Sep, 15:21, Paul Cassel
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Hi, I'm performing some research on shipping routes, and was wondering
if anyone could help? I was wondering what kind of routes, with
examples of lat,long coordinates a ship would follow it is was
following a "normal" route from Mobile, Al. to Liverpool?

Search engines your friend. A quick search revealed this:

http://sntg.com/solutions/routes/map/routes_v3.swf

A good start.

Thanks!
It does present a bit of a mystery- how can such a ship, eastbound,
wind up in the vicinity of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland?


Once answer.....weather routing

or..how about 'great circle' routing? If you have a globe at home...streach
a string between the two points and you might be surprised where the path
covers.

It surprises some to find if travel east from Chicago on the latitude
line the first foreign city you hit is Buffalo, NY. The second is
Rome, IT. But some people are surprised that you go east.

--Vic