Why is Sydney to Lisbon so much further than Sydney to Reykjavik (Iceland)?

Question

Sydney to Lisbon: 18,166km

Sydney to Reykjavik: 16,605km

By looking at a globe or map, this makes absolutely no sense…

In: Physics

Answer 1

You go to Sydney to Reykjavik from the South-East direction and Sydney to Lisbon from the North-West direction. If you measure the distance from an actual globe map, and not a paper map you will see it.