Nonstop flight route between Easton, Washington, United States and Hammerfest, Finnmark, Norway:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Easton State Airport (ESW), Easton, Washington, United States and Hammerfest Airport (HFT), Hammerfest, Finnmark, Norway would travel a Great Circle distance of 4,103 miles (or 6,602 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 Easton State Airport and Hammerfest 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 Easton State Airport and Hammerfest Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Easton State Airport (ESW):

• The furthest airport from Easton State Airport (ESW) is Tôlanaro Airport (FTU), which is located 10,770 miles (17,332 kilometers) away in Tôlanaro, Madagascar.
• Easton State Airport covers an area of 28 acres and has a runway designated 9/27 with a turf surface measuring 2,640 by 100 feet, with a 300 feet displaced threshold on the west end.
• Easton State Airport (ESW) currently has only 1 runway.
• The closest airport to Easton State Airport (ESW) is Bowers Field (ELN), which is located 34 miles (55 kilometers) ESE of ESW.

Facts about Hammerfest Airport (HFT):

• In addition to being known as "Hammerfest Airport", another name for HFT is "Hammerfest lufthavn".
• Hammerfest was served from 1935 by scheduled seaplanes at a water aerodrome at Rypefjord.
• Hammerfest Airport handled 120,503 passengers last year.
• Widerøe introduced the de Havilland Canada Dash 7 on the route from Tromsø Airport to Hammerfest in 1983, the same year as Norving started flights from Hammerfest to Hasvik Airport.
• Because of Hammerfest Airport's relatively low elevation of 262 feet, planes can take off or land at Hammerfest 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 Hammerfest Airport (HFT) is Hasvik Airport (HAA), which is located 38 miles (60 kilometers) WSW of HFT.
• The furthest airport from Hammerfest Airport (HFT) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is located 10,456 miles (16,828 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
• Avinor's proposal for National Transport Plan 2014–2023 discards building an airport at Grøtnes.
• Hammerfest Airport is a regional airport at Prærien in Hammerfest, Norway.
• The main route at Hammerfest is Widerøe's service to Tromsø, which is operated up to eight times per day using Dash 8-100 aircraft.