Nonstop flight route between Maun, Botswana and Heringsdorf, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Maun Airport (MUB), Maun, Botswana and Heringsdorf Airport (HDF), Heringsdorf, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany would travel a Great Circle distance of 5,132 miles (or 8,260 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 Maun Airport and Heringsdorf 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 Maun Airport and Heringsdorf Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Maun Airport (MUB):

• The closest airport to Maun Airport (MUB) is Ghanzi Airport (GNZ), which is located 165 miles (266 kilometers) SW of MUB.
• Maun Airport is an international airport serving the town of Maun in the northern part of Botswana.
• Maun Airport (MUB) currently has only 1 runway.
• In March 2000 a Cessna 414 crashed on its way from Gaborone to Maun.
• The furthest airport from Maun Airport (MUB) is Kona International Airport at Keāhole (KOA), which is nearly antipodal to Maun Airport (meaning Maun Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Kona International Airport at Keāhole), and is located 12,399 miles (19,954 kilometers) away in Kailua / Kona, Hawaii, United States.
• The first planes to land here were before World War II – in the 1930s, just a mere 30 or so years after the Wright brothers made their historic first flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
• The aircraft were awaited as they brought news of the outside world, mail, medicines, foodstuffs, and above all, new people to a community hundreds of kilometres from the nearest big town.

Facts about Heringsdorf Airport (HDF):

• The furthest airport from Heringsdorf Airport (HDF) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is located 11,592 miles (18,656 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
• Heringsdorf Airport, a former East German airbase, is a regional airport located near Garz on the island of Usedom in Germany.
• Heringsdorf Airport (HDF) has 2 runways.
• In addition to being known as "Heringsdorf Airport", another name for HDF is "Flughafen Heringsdorf".
• The closest airport to Heringsdorf Airport (HDF) is "Solidarity" Szczecin–Goleniów Airport (SZZ), which is located 37 miles (59 kilometers) ESE of HDF.
• Because of Heringsdorf Airport's relatively low elevation of 92 feet, planes can take off or land at Heringsdorf 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.