Nonstop flight route between Kangiqsujuaq, Quebec, Canada and Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Kangiqsujuaq (Wakeham Bay) Airport (YWB), Kangiqsujuaq, Quebec, Canada and Milton Keynes Airport (KYN), Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom would travel a Great Circle distance of 2,626 miles (or 4,226 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 Kangiqsujuaq (Wakeham Bay) Airport and Milton Keynes 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 Kangiqsujuaq (Wakeham Bay) Airport and Milton Keynes Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Kangiqsujuaq (Wakeham Bay) Airport (YWB):

• The closest airport to Kangiqsujuaq (Wakeham Bay) Airport (YWB) is Kattiniq/Donaldson Airport (YAU), which is located 46 miles (74 kilometers) W of YWB.
• Kangiqsujuaq (Wakeham Bay) Airport (YWB) currently has only 1 runway.
• Because of Kangiqsujuaq (Wakeham Bay) Airport's relatively low elevation of 517 feet, planes can take off or land at Kangiqsujuaq (Wakeham Bay) 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 furthest airport from Kangiqsujuaq (Wakeham Bay) Airport (YWB) is Albany Airport (ALH), which is located 10,547 miles (16,973 kilometers) away in Albany, Western Australia, Australia.

Facts about Milton Keynes Airport (KYN):

• In January 2004, Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott announced the Government's plan to double the population of Milton Keynes by 2026.
• The furthest airport from Milton Keynes Airport (KYN) is Dunedin International Airport (DUD), which is located 11,849 miles (19,069 kilometers) away in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand.
• There is a separate cycleway network, the "redways", that runs through the grid-squares and often runs alongside the grid-road network.
• The open air National Bowl is a 65,000 capacity venue for large scale events.
• The Government wound up MKDC in 1992, 25 years after the new town was created, transferring control to the Commission for New Towns and then finally to English Partnerships, with the planning function returning to local authority control.
• The closest airport to Milton Keynes Airport (KYN) is Sywell Aerodrome (ORM), which is located only 18 miles (30 kilometers) N of KYN.
• Because of Milton Keynes Airport's relatively low elevation of 0 feet, planes can take off or land at Milton Keynes 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.
• At the 2011 census the population of the Milton Keynes urban area, including the adjacent Newport Pagnell and Woburn Sands, was 229,941, and that of the wider borough, which has been a unitary authority independent of Buckinghamshire County Council since 1997, was 248,800, with almost all the approx 196,000 population increase since 2001 arising in the urban area.