Originally Posted by
LarryJ
Not sure what you mean by that. The great circle route is the shortest distance between any two points on Earth. Australia is no exception.
Great Circle Mapper
I guess I mean a route that doesn't make sense on a flat versus curved world view. Like if you look at SIN to LAX vs SFO, one goes further north than the other. And if you look at SIN to JNB it is basically a straight line, not really curving. So same as if you just put a map on a table and traced the shortest distance point by point, disregarding the curvature of the earth.