- IATA
- CHC
- the code on your bag tag
- ICAO
- NZCH
- used by air traffic control
- Routes here
- 2
- in the catalogue
- From the equator
- 4,836 km
- 5,172 km from the South pole
Where it sits
43.5°S, 172.5°E puts CHC in the southern hemisphere, 4,836 km from the equator and 5,172 km from the South pole.
Of the 661 airports on this site it is the 656th most northerly, which makes it the 6th most southerly.
Straight through the middle
Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 43.5°N, 7.5°W — 268 km from Francisco de Sá Carneiro (OPO) in Portugal, which is about as close to a true antipodal airport pair as this table gets.
What’s near it
The closest other airport on this site is Nelson (NSN), 250 km away in a straight line. Nothing else on this site is within 100 km.
What’s on this page, and what isn’t
Every figure here is computed from the airport’s coordinates and the rest of the table — distances, bearings, ranks, the antipode. Nothing is written by hand, so nothing on it is a half-remembered fact about a terminal that was rebuilt in 2019.
Which also means what you won’t find: no passenger figures, no terminal maps, no airline lists, no live departures. Orbit is a logbook, not a flight tracker, and a page that invented those would be worse than one that leaves them out.
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