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Knowing the angle of latitude you can work out the radius of the circle of latitude and half its circumference. You can also work out the arc length of the route over the pole.

It would be a good idea to draw a graph for the ratio of these distances for different angles of latitude.

Can you explain why this ratio tends to a limit?