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I cant see Baltra Airport in the Galapagos Islands (https://goo.gl/maps/x9PW5i4VWMH2) - it is "near" the most remote Mataveri Airport on Easter Island and may skew the most remote result to another airport?

I guess not all airports are included (e.g there is one I've flown into as a tourist to the antarctic peninsula that is missing (https://goo.gl/maps/u54LnTDYb8N2)

Great visualisation though :)

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Yeah, he mentions that: "There are in fact airports on Antarctica, but they are not classed as medium or large, and do not have scheduled services according to this dataset."

The list of airports in Antarctica is surprising long, but most of them are ice or snow and probably need to be remade each year. Some are hard to impossible to see on google maps, but many are quite visible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airports_in_Antarctica

It says "2,980 large and medium airports with scheduled services from OurAirports.": http://ourairports.com/data/

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