Nonstop flight route between Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil and Pituffik, Greenland:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Campo dos Amarais State Airport (CPQ), Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil and Thule Air Base (THU), Pituffik, Greenland would travel a Great Circle distance of 6,928 miles (or 11,149 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 Campo dos Amarais State Airport and Thule Air Base, 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 Campo dos Amarais State Airport and Thule Air Base. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Campo dos Amarais State Airport (CPQ):

• Currently no scheduled flights operate at this airport.
• Campo dos Amarais State Airport handled 28,194 passengers last year.
• The airport is presently dedicated to general aviation.
• Campo dos Amarais State Airport (CPQ) currently has only 1 runway.
• The furthest airport from Campo dos Amarais State Airport (CPQ) is Minami-Daito Airport (MMD), which is nearly antipodal to Campo dos Amarais State Airport (meaning Campo dos Amarais State Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Minami-Daito Airport), and is located 12,206 miles (19,644 kilometers) away in Minami Daito, Okinawa, Japan.
• The closest airport to Campo dos Amarais State Airport (CPQ) is Viracopos–Campinas International Airport (VCP), which is located only 10 miles (17 kilometers) S of CPQ.
• In addition to being known as "Campo dos Amarais State Airport", another name for CPQ is "Aeroporto Estadual Campo dos Amarais".

Facts about Thule Air Base (THU):

• Thule Air Base is the U.S.
• There is only a brief period each year in the summer when sea ice thins sufficiently to send supply ships to the base.
• The furthest airport from Thule Air Base (THU) is Hobart International Airport (HBA), which is located 9,883 miles (15,905 kilometers) away in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
• The closest airport to Thule Air Base (THU) is Savissivik Heliport (SVR), which is located 69 miles (111 kilometers) ESE of THU.
• A cluster of huts known as Pituffik stood on the wide plain where the base was built in 1951.
• In 1959, the airbase was the main staging point for the construction of Camp Century, some 150 mi from the base.
• In the winter of 1956/57 three KC-97 tankers and alternately one of two RB-47H aircraft made polar flights to inspect Soviet defenses.
• In addition to being known as "Thule Air Base", another name for THU is "Thule AB".
• In 1949, Denmark joined NATO and abandoned its attempt to remove the United States bases.