Starting points for a south-east-north walk loop
Question
On a perfectly spherical Earth, from how many starting points can you walk km due south, then km due east, then km due north, and arrive back where you began?
Short answer
Infinitely many. The North Pole works. Also, near the South Pole there is a latitude circle of circumference km for each ; start anywhere on the circle km north of one of these, and the eastward kilometre loops around times before you walk back north to the start.
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