Can you name the countries that can be reached in a straight line (great circle) from Australia? by arbitrarychoice

Can you name the countries that can be reached in a straight line (great circle) from Australia?

created by arbitrarychoice

Enter a country in the box below
Correctly named countries will show up below
Answers do not have to be guessed in order
Source: great circle routes were plotted at www.acscdg.com
All these countries can be reached from Australia by travelling by the shortest route (great circle) without hitting other land first. The external territories of Australia are excluded.
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country	approx. initial direction
	south east from Queensland
	south east from New South Wales
	south east from Queensland
	east from Queensland
	east from Queensland
	east from Queensland
	east from Queensland
	east from Queensland
	east from Queensland
	north east from Queensland
	north east from Queensland
	north east from Queensland
	north east from Queensland
	north east fromTasmania
	north from Queensland

	north east from the Northern Territory
	north from the Northern Territory
	north from Western Australia
	north from Western Australia
	north from Queensland
	north east from Queensland
	north east from Queensland
	north east from New South Wales
	north east from Victoria
	north east from Victoria
	east from Queensland
	north east from Queensland

country	approx. initial direction
	north east from Tasmania
	north east from New South Wales
	north east from Queensland
	east from Victoria
	north west from Western Australia
	north west from Western Australia
	north west from Western Australia
	north west from Western Australia
	north west from Western Australia
	north west from Western Australia
	north west from Western Australia
	north west from Western Australia
	west from Western Australia
	west from Western Australia
	west from Western Australia
	north west from Western Australia
	north west from Western Australia
	west from Western Australia
	west from Western Australia
	west from Western Australia
	west from Western Australia
	south west from Tasmania
	south west from Tasmania
	south west from Tasmania
	south west from Tasmania
	south west from Victoria
	south west from Victoria
	south west from Western Australia
south west from Western Australia
south west from Western Australia
south west from Western Australia
south west from Western Australia
south west from Western Australia
south west from Western Australia
south west from Western Australia
south west from Western Australia
south west from Western Australia
south west from Western Australia
south west from Western Australia
south west from Western Australia
south west from Western Australia
south west from Western Australia
south west from Western Australia
south west from Western Australia

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Created Nov 14, 2010 in Geography
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	arbitrarychoice:	Nov 14th, 2010 at 17:40 GMT	5 points
	China, North Korea and South Korea appear to narrowly miss out. If anyone find a great circle route through the Malay Archipelago to them then please let me know, preferably by giving the coordinates of the start and finish points.

	nadivereb:	Nov 14th, 2010 at 18:15 GMT	4 points
	Maybe you could add Antarctica as a bonus, since it is not a country.

	Pit_trout:	Nov 14th, 2010 at 21:36 GMT	5 points
	Wow, lovely quiz — imagining the great circle routes round to West Africa is mindbending :-) Typo: Peru should be southeast from Queensland, not southwest, I think? Also, the wording might be clearer if you gave the directions as "southeast from NSW" etc, perhaps? "southeast of…" makes it sound like you're describing the relative location the, rather than the direction of the lin.e

	Chromatos:	Nov 15th, 2010 at 02:08 GMT	3 points
	I didn't even contemplate going past antarctica to west africa... Is there any reason why you accept Réunion but no other overseas territories (ie, Antarctic claims)?

	padraic:	Nov 15th, 2010 at 03:26 GMT	4 points
	Is it possible to reach Portugal by going from Tasmania to the Azores?

	FreakyFlyBry:	Nov 15th, 2010 at 03:33 GMT	4 points
	Damn, totally missed the West African countries and Brazil! @Chromatos: Réunion is an overseas department of France, and therefore is a full part of France.

	arbitrarychoice:	Nov 15th, 2010 at 09:56 GMT	5 points
	@Chromotos I'll accept a part of a country even if it is a long way from the majority portion. Therefore I accept Reunion as part of France and I would accept Hawaii as part of the US. However I do not accept territories that are dependents of a host country rather than an integral part of it. I hope this clarification helps.

	arbitrarychoice:	Nov 15th, 2010 at 13:01 GMT	3 points
	@padraic. It's close. I haven't managed to avoid Antarctica and West Africa in reaching the Azores. If give me start/finish coordinates that work then I'll add Portugal.

	Onno:	Nov 15th, 2010 at 15:51 GMT	3 points
	Antigua and Barbuda and the Bahamas are pretty close. Well, close enough that I felt like saying that I checked it...

	mattzc7:	Nov 15th, 2010 at 18:00 GMT	4 points
	West Africa via (or just by) Antarctica just blew my mind. Excellent quiz.

	cuendillar:	Nov 16th, 2010 at 10:26 GMT	3 points
	I'm not completely sure, but it looks to me that you can get to Denmark (Greenland's west coast) by skirting Antarctica and West Africa. It's across more than half the world though, so it's hard to double-check it.

	arbitrarychoice:	Nov 16th, 2010 at 13:30 GMT	4 points
	@cuendillar: I've defined the route as the shortest distnce between two points recently to avoid such possibities.

	aandsl:	Mar 20th, 2011 at 11:02 GMT	-2 points
	it would be great if you could put the answers in alphabetical order. it helps a bit once you get to the guessing stage!

	mein_caps:	Apr 12th, 2011 at 23:32 GMT	1 point
	Looks like you can possibly get to the Caribbean: from (21 57 23 S, 113 54 17 E) to (17 07 37 N, 059 03 49 W). It's a really close call on whether it's less than half-way around.

	tahitiwahini:	Apr 13th, 2011 at 17:33 GMT	1 point
	Amazing quiz, one of the cleverest I've seen on Sporlce! @aands: it's sort of in order by location in Australia and direction, I think that works better than alphabetical order in this case. Maybe I think that since I'm naming answers by thinking of coastlines I think are in view of Australia rather than thinking of the name of the countries first. For me it works better the way it is. Favorite, 5 globes, nominated.

	tahitiwahini:	Apr 13th, 2011 at 17:43 GMT	1 point
	@mein_caps: 17 07 37 N, 059 03 49 W puts one in the middle of Canada, is there a typo?

	TheBigE1980:	Apr 13th, 2011 at 21:18 GMT	2 points
	@tahitiwahini: Canada's southern border is 49 00 00 N. Did you accidentally type 71 00 00 N?

	tahitiwahini:	Apr 14th, 2011 at 01:28 GMT	1 point
	@TheBigE1980: agree with what you say about Canada. Here's what happened to me as I was trying to verify mein_caps post about the Bahamas. I go to the source link http://www.acscdg.com/ and copy and past the first point: 21 57 23 S, 113 54 17 E. So far so good, as this point is in Western Australia. Then copy and paste the second point: 17 07 37 N, 059 03 49 W and I swear I end up in middle of Saskatchewan. The actual location of where I am seems to be: 54 31 33 N 105 15 18 W. It doesn't matter whether I enter the lat./long. as the first point or the second point I still end up in Canada. Interested in knowing if anyone else has the same experience.