Nonstop flight route between Hadsel, Nordland, Norway and Boca Raton, Florida, United States:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Stokmarknes Airport, Skagen (SKN), Hadsel, Nordland, Norway and Boca Raton Airport (BCT), Boca Raton, Florida, United States would travel a Great Circle distance of 4,657 miles (or 7,494 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 Stokmarknes Airport, Skagen and Boca Raton 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 Stokmarknes Airport, Skagen and Boca Raton Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Stokmarknes Airport, Skagen (SKN):

• Stokmarknes Airport, Skagen (SKN) currently has only 1 runway.
• Stokmarknes Airport, Skagen handled 104,171 passengers last year.
• Because of Stokmarknes Airport, Skagen's relatively low elevation of 13 feet, planes can take off or land at Stokmarknes Airport, Skagen 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 airport opened 1 July 1972 as part of a government program of building a series of small airports along the coast.
• The closest airport to Stokmarknes Airport, Skagen (SKN) is Svolvær Airport, Helle (SVJ), which is located 25 miles (40 kilometers) SSW of SKN.
• The furthest airport from Stokmarknes Airport, Skagen (SKN) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is located 10,676 miles (17,182 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
• In addition to being known as "Stokmarknes Airport, Skagen", another name for SKN is "Stokmarknes lufthavn, Skagen".

Facts about Boca Raton Airport (BCT):

• Boca Raton Airport (BCT) currently has only 1 runway.
• Boca Raton Airport is a state-owned public-use airport located two miles northwest of the central business district of Boca Raton, a city in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States.
• The Boca Raton Airport, also known as Boca Raton Army Airfield, was selected to house a military airfield for a number of geographic and practical reasons.
• The furthest airport from Boca Raton Airport (BCT) is Shark Bay Airport (MJK), which is located 11,588 miles (18,649 kilometers) away in Monkey Mia, Western Australia, Australia.
• Because of Boca Raton Airport's relatively low elevation of 13 feet, planes can take off or land at Boca Raton 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 military inactivated the Boca Raton Army Air Field in 1946 and in the 1950s part of the air base was used for a Cold War biological weapons program before the property was developed into Florida Atlantic University.
• The closest airport to Boca Raton Airport (BCT) is Pompano Beach Airpark (PPM), which is located only 9 miles (15 kilometers) S of BCT.