RHUMB LINE

 RHUMB LINE (LOXODROME)

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ITS A REGULARLY CURVED LINE WHICH CUTS ALL THE MERIDIANS AT THE SAME ANGLE 

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PROPERTIES

•Regularly curved line on the surface of the EARTH, which cuts all the MERIDIANS at same angle

•It has constant TRUE direction

•A straight line on a MERCATOR chart

•All PARALLELS OF LATITUDE are RHUMB LINE

•MERIDIANS AND ITS ANTI-MERIDIANS forms GREAT CIRCLE & are also RHUMB LINE

•EQUATOR is also a GREAT CIRCLE & RHUMB LINE