Nonstop flight route between Leonora, Western Australia, Australia and Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Leonora Airport (LNO), Leonora, Western Australia, Australia and Iqaluit Airport (YFB), Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada would travel a Great Circle distance of 9,988 miles (or 16,073 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 Leonora Airport and Iqaluit 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 Leonora Airport and Iqaluit Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Leonora Airport (LNO):

• The furthest airport from Leonora Airport (LNO) is L.F. Wade International Airport (BDA), which is nearly antipodal to Leonora Airport (meaning Leonora Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from L.F. Wade International Airport), and is located 12,007 miles (19,323 kilometers) away in Ferry Reach (near Hamilton), Bermuda.
• The closest airport to Leonora Airport (LNO) is Murrin Murrin Airport (WUI), which is located 37 miles (59 kilometers) ENE of LNO.
• Leonora Airport (LNO) has 2 runways.

Facts about Iqaluit Airport (YFB):

• In January 2012 Air Greenland announced that a 1-hour, 45-minute flight from Nuuk to Iqaluit, down from three days when going via Copenhagen or Reykjavik and then on to Ottawa, would begin 18 June 2012, later changed to 15 June.
• With the introduction of the intercontinental Boeing 707 and Douglas DC-8, fewer airlines stopped at Iqaluit.
• Iqaluit Airport (YFB) currently has only 1 runway.
• The furthest airport from Iqaluit Airport (YFB) is Albany Airport (ALH), which is located 10,428 miles (16,782 kilometers) away in Albany, Western Australia, Australia.
• Because of Iqaluit Airport's relatively low elevation of 110 feet, planes can take off or land at Iqaluit 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 Iqaluit Airport (YFB) is Kimmirut Airport (YLC), which is located 75 miles (121 kilometers) SSW of YFB.
• There is a persistent but false rumour that Iqaluit Airport is one of the emergency landing sites for NASA's Space Shuttle, due to the length of its runway and its geographic location.