Nonstop flight route between Pituffik, Greenland and Posadas, Argentina:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Thule Air Base (THU), Pituffik, Greenland and Libertador General José de San Martín Airport (PSS), Posadas, Argentina would travel a Great Circle distance of 7,201 miles (or 11,588 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 Thule Air Base and Libertador General José de San Martín 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 Thule Air Base and Libertador General José de San Martín Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Thule Air Base (THU):

• The closest airport to Thule Air Base (THU) is Savissivik Heliport (SVR), which is located 69 miles (111 kilometers) ESE of THU.
• In addition to being known as "Thule Air Base", another name for THU is "Thule AB".
• Originally established as a Strategic Air Command installation, Thule would periodically serve as a dispersal base for B-36 Peacemaker and B-47 Stratojet aircraft during the 1950s, as well as providing an ideal site to test the operability and maintainability of these weapon systems in extreme cold weather.
• A board of Air Force officers headed by Gordon P.
• In 1818, Sir John Ross’s expedition made first contact with nomadic Polar Eskimos in the area.
• 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.
• 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 is the location where the fastest recorded sea level surface wind speed in the world was measured when a peak speed of 333 kilometres per hour was recorded on 8 March 1972 prior to the instrument's destruction.

Facts about Libertador General José de San Martín Airport (PSS):

• Libertador General José de San Martín Airport is located 7.5 km northwest of the center of Posadas, a city in the Misiones Province of Argentina.
• The closest airport to Libertador General José de San Martín Airport (PSS) is Libertador General José de San Martín Airport (JSM), which is located only 0 mile (0 kilometer) N of PSS.
• In addition to being known as "Libertador General José de San Martín Airport", another name for PSS is "Aeropuerto de Posadas "Libertador General San Martín"".
• Libertador General José de San Martín Airport (PSS) currently has only 1 runway.
• The furthest airport from Libertador General José de San Martín Airport (PSS) is Taizhou Luqiao Airport (HYN), which is nearly antipodal to Libertador General José de San Martín Airport (meaning Libertador General José de San Martín Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Taizhou Luqiao Airport), and is located 12,258 miles (19,728 kilometers) away in Taizhou, Zhejiang, China.
• On October 10, 1997, Austral Flight 2553 left the airport for Buenos Aires but crashed one hour later in Fray Bentos, Uruguay, killing 75.
• On June 12, 1988, Austral Lineas Aereas Flight 46 undershot the runway, resulting in 22 deaths.
• Because of Libertador General José de San Martín Airport's relatively low elevation of 430 feet, planes can take off or land at Libertador General José de San Martín 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.
• It has a 6,500 m² terminal, 67,740 m² of runways, and parking spaces for 100 vehicles.