Flying from Europe to Montreal, planes often follow a 'great circle' which brings them North towards Greenland, and then across much of barren Quebec. During the latter section, looking out of the plane across the landscape reveals incredibly stark terrain, rocky and pocked with lakes and rivers. In winter, the sight is even more sombre and desolate, yet from the sky long and straight white lines can be seen in the otherwise untouched wilderness. These look somewhat like highways, or snowmobile trails, however they are actually power line corridors, bringing electricity huge distances to remote northern communities.
Bonus:
Without knowing it, passengers on transatlantic flights also cross the longest mountain range on earth: the Mid-Atlantic ridge. The underwater mountains stretch roughly 40,000 km and occasionally surface (such as on Iceland and the Azores Islands).
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