Approximately between 15-25 thousand people greeted the "Southern Cross" when it made its arrival at Eagle Farm Airport north of Brisbane on 9th June 1928 where it had flown from Oakland, California, USA via Honolulu, Hawaii, USA then to Suva, Fiji then to Brisbane, Australia.
The distance of the record flight from Oakland, California, USA to Brisbane, Queensland, Australia was 7,250 miles or 11,670 kilometers (Source: Wikipedia: Southern Cross), however though, this newsreel states that the total flight distance was 6,417 miles.
This newsreel one-reeler commemorated the first ever trans-Pacific flight to Australia from the United States of America to Australia in 1928.
The San Francisco, California, USA to Honolulu, Hawaii, USA hop of the flight, the trip's first leg, is stated in a title card as being a distance of 2091 miles which took a traveling time of 27½ hours.
The Honolulu, Hawaii, USA to Suva, Fiji hop of the flight, the trip's second leg, is stated in a title card as being a distance of 2783 miles which took a traveling time of 34 hours, the longest of the three parts of the journey.