Nonstop flight route between Quoin Hill, Vanuatu and Bajawa, Indonesia:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Quoin Hill Airfield (UIQ), Quoin Hill, Vanuatu and Bajawa Soa Airport (BJW), Bajawa, Indonesia would travel a Great Circle distance of 3,708 miles (or 5,967 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 Quoin Hill Airfield and Bajawa Soa 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 Quoin Hill Airfield and Bajawa Soa Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Quoin Hill Airfield (UIQ):

• The closest airport to Quoin Hill Airfield (UIQ) is Wake Island Airfield (AWK), which is located 169 miles (272 kilometers) NW of UIQ.
• A site was chosen for a bomber airfield and in October the Seebees started constructing a 6,000 feet by 200 feet runway which was completed by the middle of January 1943.
• Investigations took place in the late 1980s as to whether Quoin Hill could be used as an alternate for Bauerfield International Airport, but this never came to fruition.
• With Japanese forces establishing bases on Guadalcanal which threatened the sea route between the U.S.
• The furthest airport from Quoin Hill Airfield (UIQ) is RAF Ascension (ASI), which is located 11,749 miles (18,907 kilometers) away in Georgetown, Ascension Island, Saint Helena.

Facts about Bajawa Soa Airport (BJW):

• In addition to being known as "Bajawa Soa Airport", other names for BJW include "Bandar Udara Soa" and "WATB".
• Because of Bajawa Soa Airport's high elevation of 4,326 feet, planes must typically fly at a faster airspeed in order to takeoff or land at BJW. Combined with a high temperature, this could make BJW a "Hot & High" airport, where the air density is lower than it would otherwise be at sea level.
• The furthest airport from Bajawa Soa Airport (BJW) is Ogle Airport (OGL), which is nearly antipodal to Bajawa Soa Airport (meaning Bajawa Soa Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Ogle Airport), and is located 12,293 miles (19,784 kilometers) away in Georgetown, Guyana.
• Bajawa Soa Airport (BJW) currently has only 1 runway.
• The closest airport to Bajawa Soa Airport (BJW) is H. Hasan Aroeboesman Airport (ENE), which is located 42 miles (67 kilometers) ESE of BJW.