Nonstop flight route between Cape Romanzof, Alaska, United States and Berlevåg, Norway:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Cape Romanzof Air Force Station Cape Romanzof Long Range Radar Site    (CZF), Cape Romanzof, Alaska, United States and Berlevåg Airport (BVG), Berlevåg, Norway would travel a Great Circle distance of 3,242 miles (or 5,218 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 Cape Romanzof Air Force Station Cape Romanzof Long Range Radar Site    and Berlevåg 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 Cape Romanzof Air Force Station Cape Romanzof Long Range Radar Site    and Berlevåg Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Cape Romanzof Air Force Station Cape Romanzof Long Range Radar Site    (CZF):

• The furthest airport from Cape Romanzof Air Force Station Cape Romanzof Long Range Radar Site    (CZF) is Cape Town International Airport (CPT), which is located 10,504 miles (16,905 kilometers) away in Cape Town, South Africa.
• The closest airport to Cape Romanzof Air Force Station Cape Romanzof Long Range Radar Site    (CZF) is Scammon Bay Airport (SCM), which is located only 13 miles (21 kilometers) ENE of CZF.
• No longer needed, the 795th AC&W Sq was inactivated on l November 1983 and the station re-designated as a Long Range Radar Site.
• Cape Romanzof AFS was a continental defence radar station constructed to provide the United States Air Force early warning of an attack by the Soviet Union on Alaska.
• The inaccessibility made the personnel at the site responsible for maintenance if anything went wrong.
• In addition to being known as "Cape Romanzof Air Force Station Cape Romanzof Long Range Radar Site   ", another name for CZF is "Cape Romanzof AFS Radars F-06".

Facts about Berlevåg Airport (BVG):

• The furthest airport from Berlevåg Airport (BVG) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is located 10,376 miles (16,698 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
• Berlevåg Airport handled 5,949 passengers last year.
• The closest airport to Berlevåg Airport (BVG) is Båtsfjord Airport (BJF), which is located 24 miles (39 kilometers) SE of BVG.
• During the German occupation of Norway during World War II, the German Wehrmacht was dependent on supplies to the town of Kirkenes which had to be shipped past Varanger Peninsula.
• The Wehrmacht had become aware of the favorable location when two aircraft had performed an emergency landing at Storsletten in 1941.
• In addition to being known as "Berlevåg Airport", another name for BVG is "Berlevåg lufthavn".
• Because of Berlevåg Airport's relatively low elevation of 43 feet, planes can take off or land at Berlevåg 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.
• Norving started offering flights to the closed-down military airport in 1970 using their newly delivered Britten-Norman Islander.
• Berlevåg Airport is served by Widerøe with Dash 8-100 aircraft connecting the community with Tromsø, Kirkenes and other airports in Finnmark.