Nonstop flight route between Bergen, Norway and Leigh Creek, South Australia, Australia:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Bergen-Flesland International Airport (BGO), Bergen, Norway and Leigh Creek Airport (LGH), Leigh Creek, South Australia, Australia would travel a Great Circle distance of 9,482 miles (or 15,260 kilometers).

A Great Circle is the shortest distance between 2 points on a sphere. Because most world maps are flat (but the Earth is round), the route of the shortest distance between 2 points on the Earth will often appear curved when viewed on a flat map, especially for long distances. If you were to simply draw a straight line on a flat map and measure a very long distance, it would likely be much further than if you were to lay a string between those two points on a globe. Because of the large distance between Bergen-Flesland International Airport and Leigh Creek Airport, the route shown on this map most likely appears curved because of this reason.

Try it at home! Get a globe and tightly lay a string between Bergen-Flesland International Airport and Leigh Creek Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Bergen-Flesland International Airport (BGO):

• Nineteen scheduled airlines operate to nineteen domestic and thirty-four international destinations.
• Bergen-Flesland International Airport handled 6,213,960 passengers last year.
• Because of Bergen-Flesland International Airport's relatively low elevation of 166 feet, planes can take off or land at Bergen-Flesland International Airport at a lower air speed than at airports located at a higher elevation. This is because the air density is higher closer to sea level than it would otherwise be at higher elevations.
• The Civil Aviation Administration started working on plans for an airport for Bergen in 1947.
• Financing was instead secured through a national military communications project, of which 16 million Norwegian krone was set aside over a period of three years, which would secure construction of a 1,460-meter runway.
• In addition to being known as "Bergen-Flesland International Airport", another name for BGO is "Bergen lufthavn, Flesland".
• All eleven terminal gates have jet bridges, numbered 21 through 30 and 32.
• The airport had 70,000 passengers during its first twelve months of operations and exceeded 100,000 the following year.
• Bergen-Flesland International Airport (BGO) currently has only 1 runway.
• The closest airport to Bergen-Flesland International Airport (BGO) is Stord Airport, Sørstokken (SRP), which is located 35 miles (56 kilometers) S of BGO.
• The first four regional airports in Sogn og Fjordane and Møre og Romsdal were opened in 1971 and Widerøe started flights to Florø, Førde, Sogndal and Ørsta/Volda.
• The first aircraft to land at the airport was a de Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter of the air force on 18 June 1954.
• The furthest airport from Bergen-Flesland International Airport (BGO) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is located 11,296 miles (18,179 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.

Facts about Leigh Creek Airport (LGH):

• Leigh Creek Airport (LGH) has 2 runways.
• The furthest airport from Leigh Creek Airport (LGH) is Flores Airport (FLW), which is located 11,587 miles (18,648 kilometers) away in Flores Island, Azores, Portugal.
• Because of Leigh Creek Airport's relatively low elevation of 856 feet, planes can take off or land at Leigh Creek Airport at a lower air speed than at airports located at a higher elevation. This is because the air density is higher closer to sea level than it would otherwise be at higher elevations.
• The closest airport to Leigh Creek Airport (LGH) is Wilpena Pound (HWK), which is located 67 miles (108 kilometers) S of LGH.