Originally Posted by
haapalainen
...as well as learning that HEL is also the closest EU capital to Sydney, Australia. Who would have thought that just by looking at a regular Mercator projection map of the Earth?! And people still keep saying how Finland is so isolated and far away from everything
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Technically ECN is closer, but your point is valid and surprising.
Even connections via HEL would make a really short route to SYD for origins in northern EU, including LHR, AMS, BRU, BER and so on.
