Long haul flights, longest rivers and Roman roads

This follows on a series of maps posted here, that uses the desktop or wall and not web format as explained here.

I repost here a cool map on long haul flights: I grew up taking earlier ones over 50 yrs. ago; one of the carriers I used, Qantas just announced here jets that can fly Sydney to New York or London direct! Next is a new map of the longest rivers from a website priding itself of its visualisations: I used previous techniques and cannot decide which works best; perhaps you the reader can help?

Ten Longest Haul Flights

From my Story Map portfolio here, my first 30DayMapChallenge here during COVID, and extra on "Day 15: Connections": Inspired by  @pheebely  tweeet "Ten Longest Haul Flights" here, I recast this on Spilhaus projection... Why? Because it's ocean-centric, and long-haul flights tend to go over oceans not only to follow "great circles" (shortest distance over a globe), but also for safety (less risk of ground damage in the unlikely case of an accident). In Esri ArcGIS with publicly available fight path data.

click to enlarge, full size here

As this is an unusual projection, do take a moment to orient yourself: Antactica is in the centre, Australia side-on to its immediate right, Africa above left, and Greenland top left are recognisable;  Europe, Asia and the Americas are however smeared along the edges... can you recognise any features?

15 Longest Rivers

Inspired by Visual Capitalist post here, I mapped those rivers on Spilhaus ocean-centric projection as above - rivers empty into oceans after all, don't they? -  as well as an Equal Earth projection centered on the date line (see various Equal Earth & Spilhaus projection variants in a YouTube playlist here). Natural Earth has 10m resolution world rivers here: I simply selected by Visual Capitalist's list. All in Esri ArcGIS too.

Spilhaus - click to enlarge, full size here

Natural Earth - click to enlarge, full size here

I can't decide which is the more telling of the map displays to appreciate river lengths. Can you? If so, please leave a coment below... Thanks for watching!