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The Mississippi Waterways At present no place in the world is more than35hoursaway.Thisstartlingfacthasbeen The Mississippi-Ohio waterway connects the made possible due to people who build and fly interior part of U.S.A. with the Gulf of Mexico in the south. Large steamers can go through airplanes. Travel by air can now be measured this route up to Minneapolis. by hours and minutes instead of years and months. Frequent air services are available to many parts of the world. Although, U.K. AIR TRANSPORT pioneered the use of commercial jet transport, Air transport is the fastest means of U.S.A. developedlargelypost-Warinternational transportation, but it is very costly. Being fast,ivil aviation. Today, more than 250 it is preferred by passengers for long-distance commercial airlines offer regular services to travel. Valuable cargo can be moved rapidly on different parts of the world. Recent a world-wide scale. It is often the only means developments can change the future course of to reach inaccessible areas. Air transport has air transport. Supersonic aircraft, cover the brought about a connectivity revolution in the distance between London and New York within world. The frictions created by mountainous three and a half hours. snow fields or inhospitable desert terrains have been overcome. The accessibility has increased. Inter-Continental Air Routes The airplane brings varied articles to the In the Northern Hemisphere, there is a distinct Eskimos in Northern Canada unhindered by east-west belt of inter-continental air routes. the frozen ground. In the Himalayan region, the routes are often obstructed due to landslides, DensenetworkexistsinEasternU.S.A.,Western avalanches or heavy snow fall. At such times, Europe and Southeast Asia. U.S.A. alone accounts for 60 per cent of the airways of the air travel is the only alternative to reach a plaworld. New York, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Airways also have great strategic importance. Frankfurt Rome, Moscow, Karachi, New Delhi, The air strikes by U.S. and British forces in Iraq bears testimony to this fact. The airways Mumbai, Bangkok, Singapore, Tokyo, San network is expanding very fast. Francisco, Los Angeles and Chicago are the nodal points where air routes converge or radiate to all continents. Africa, Asiatic part of Russia and South America lack air services. There are limited air services between 10-35 latitudes in the Southern hemisphere due to sparser population, limited landmass and economic development. PIPELINES Pipelines are used extensively to transport liquids and gases such as water, petroleum and natural gas for an uninterrupted flow. Fig. 7.15: An Aeroplane at Salsburg Airport Water supplied through pipelines is familiar to all. Cooking gas or LPG is supplied through The manufacturing of aircrafts and their operations require elaborate infrastructure like pipelines in many parts of the world. Pipelines hangars, landing, fuelling, and maintenance can also be used to transport liquidified coal. facilities for the aircrafts. The construction ofIn New Zealand, milk is being supplied through pipelines from farms to factories. airportsisalsoveryexpensiveandhasdeveloped In U.S.A. there is a dense network of oil more in highly industrialised countries where there is a large volume of traffic. pipelines from the producing areas to the 66 Fundamentals of Human Geography Reprint 2026-27