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The Dymaxion Equator is a great circle running approximately due east and west through a point on the Pacific coast of the U.S.A. about 200 miles north of San Francisco. The dymaxion great circle through this point has ‘50-50’ as it North Pole, i.e., 50 degrees East longitude by 50 degrees North latitude, and 130 degrees West longitude by 50 degrees South latitude as its South Pole. This Dymaxion Equator runs from Cape Canaveral, Florida, through the U.S.A. to Cape Mendocina, California, then due west through a point 130 degrees West longitude by 46 degrees North latitude, north of Midway Island (far north of Hawaii, north of Wake Island, passing over the 75-mile northern neck of the island of New Guinea, thence through the Malay Straits north of Australia, thence across the Indian Ocean running due west through a point 50 degrees East longitude by 40 degrees South latitude, and thence just south of Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, and thence through the South Atlantic just north of Brazil and thence returning to U.S.A. at Cape Canaveral, Florida, having gone completely around the world on one great circle course without touching any other continent than North America and having passed over 21,000 statute miles of open ocean waters. In the Southern
