Nonstop flight route between Sanikiluaq, Nunavut, Canada and Warsaw, Poland:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Sanikiluaq Airport (YSK), Sanikiluaq, Nunavut, Canada and Historic Centre of Warsaw (WRW), Warsaw, Poland would travel a Great Circle distance of 3,674 miles (or 5,913 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 Sanikiluaq Airport and Historic Centre of Warsaw, 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 Sanikiluaq Airport and Historic Centre of Warsaw. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Sanikiluaq Airport (YSK):

• Sanikiluaq Airport (YSK) currently has only 1 runway.
• The furthest airport from Sanikiluaq Airport (YSK) is Albany Airport (ALH), which is located 10,744 miles (17,290 kilometers) away in Albany, Western Australia, Australia.
• Because of Sanikiluaq Airport's relatively low elevation of 110 feet, planes can take off or land at Sanikiluaq 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 Sanikiluaq Airport (YSK) is Kuujjuarapik Airport (YGW), which is located 104 miles (167 kilometers) SE of YSK.

Facts about Historic Centre of Warsaw (WRW):

• After the war, under a Communist regime set up by the conquering Soviets, the "Bricks for Warsaw" campaign was initiated, and large prefabricated housing projects were erected in Warsaw to address the housing shortage, along with other typical buildings of an Eastern Bloc city, such as the Palace of Culture and Science, a gift from the Soviet Union.
• The first fortified settlements on the site of today's Warsaw were Bródno and Jazdów.
• Exceptional examples of the bourgeois architecture of the later periods were not restored by the communist authorities after the war or they were rebuilt in socialist realism style.
• Warsaw flourished in the late 19th century under Mayor Sokrates Starynkiewicz, a Russian-born general appointed by Tsar Alexander III.
• The furthest airport from Historic Centre of Warsaw (WRW) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is located 11,446 miles (18,420 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
• In 1995, the Warsaw Metro opened.
• After the German Invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939 began World War II, central Poland, including Warsaw, came under the rule of the General Government, a German Nazi colonial administration.
• The closest airport to Historic Centre of Warsaw (WRW) is Warsaw Chopin Airport (WAW), which is located only 5 miles (8 kilometers) SSW of WRW.
• On 17 January 1945 – after the beginning of the Vistula–Oder Offensive of the Red Army – Soviet troops entered the ruins of Warsaw, and liberated Warsaw's suburbs from German occupation.