Nonstop flight route between Georgetown, Guyana and Pituffik, Greenland:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Cheddi Jagan International Airport (GEO), Georgetown, Guyana and Thule Air Base (THU), Pituffik, Greenland would travel a Great Circle distance of 4,855 miles (or 7,813 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 Cheddi Jagan International 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 Cheddi Jagan International 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 Cheddi Jagan International Airport (GEO):

• Cheddi Jagan International Airport, formerly Timehri International Airport, is the national airport of Guyana.
• A modern terminal building was built and opened on 15 March 1952.
• Because of Cheddi Jagan International Airport's relatively low elevation of 95 feet, planes can take off or land at Cheddi Jagan 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.
• United States Army Air Forces 430th Bombardment Squadron was assigned to Atkinson field from 4 November 1941 to 31 October 1942 flying anti-submarine sorties in Douglas B-18 bombers.
• On 30 July 2011, Caribbean Airlines Flight 523 overran the runway in rainy weather while landing at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport in Guyana and went through a chain-link perimeter fence.
• The terminal has six ground level gates.
• The closest airport to Cheddi Jagan International Airport (GEO) is Ogle Airport (OGL), which is located 24 miles (38 kilometers) NNE of GEO.
• The furthest airport from Cheddi Jagan International Airport (GEO) is Betoambari Airport (BUW), which is nearly antipodal to Cheddi Jagan International Airport (meaning Cheddi Jagan International Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Betoambari Airport), and is located 12,347 miles (19,870 kilometers) away in Bau-Bau, Buton, Indonesia.
• Cheddi Jagan International Airport (GEO) has 2 runways.

Facts about Thule Air Base (THU):

• 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.
• The closest airport to Thule Air Base (THU) is Savissivik Heliport (SVR), which is located 69 miles (111 kilometers) ESE of THU.
• A delegation from NATO's Parliamentary Assembly visited Thule in early September 2010 and were told by the base commander that, at that time, approximately 600 personnel were serving at Thule, a mix of mostly U.S.
• In addition to being known as "Thule Air Base", another name for THU is "Thule AB".
• After the German occupation of Denmark on 9 April 1940, Henrik Kauffmann Danish Ambassador to the United States, made an agreement "In the name of the king" with the United States authorizing the United States to defend the Danish colonies on Greenland from German aggression - this agreement faced Kaufmann with a charge of high treason.
• 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.
• Thule Air Base or Thule Air Base/Pituffik Airport, is the United States Air Force's northernmost base, located 1,207 km north of the Arctic Circle and 1,524 km from the North Pole on the northwest side of the island of Greenland.