Nonstop flight route between Hamburg / Fuhlsbüttel, Germany and Mataiva, French Polynesia:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Hamburg Airport (HAM), Hamburg / Fuhlsbüttel, Germany and Mataiva Airport (MVT), Mataiva, French Polynesia would travel a Great Circle distance of 9,520 miles (or 15,321 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 Hamburg Airport and Mataiva 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 Hamburg Airport and Mataiva Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Hamburg Airport (HAM):

• The closest airport to Hamburg Airport (HAM) is Hamburg Finkenwerder Airport (XFW), which is located only 9 miles (15 kilometers) SW of HAM.
• In addition to being known as "Hamburg Airport", another name for HAM is "Flughafen Hamburg".
• The airport's shareholders are the City of Hamburg and Hochtief AirPort.
• The airport is also linked by some local bus routes to nearby areas as well as regular coach services to the cities of Kiel, Neumünster and Lübeck.
• Because of Hamburg Airport's relatively low elevation of 53 feet, planes can take off or land at Hamburg 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 furthest airport from Hamburg Airport (HAM) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is located 11,698 miles (18,826 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
• The airport was opened in January 1911 from private funding by the Hamburger Luftschiffhallen GmbH, making it the oldest airport in the world which is still in operation.
• By road, the airport can be reached from motorway A7 using the state highway B433, which is the third ring road.
• Hamburg Airport handled 13,502,939 passengers last year.
• Terminal 2 was completed in 1993.
• Hamburg Airport (HAM) has 2 runways.
• Hamburg has two terminals, Terminal 1 and Terminal 2, connected by the Airport Plaza and the baggage claim area that extends through the lower levels of all three buildings.

Facts about Mataiva Airport (MVT):

• Because of Mataiva Airport's relatively low elevation of 0 feet, planes can take off or land at Mataiva 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 Mataiva Airport (MVT) is Arutua Airport (AXR), which is located 142 miles (228 kilometers) E of MVT.
• The furthest airport from Mataiva Airport (MVT) is Khartoum International Airport (KRT), which is nearly antipodal to Mataiva Airport (meaning Mataiva Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Khartoum International Airport), and is located 12,339 miles (19,858 kilometers) away in Khartoum, Sudan.