I'm just curious if anyone else on Trustpower that does a trace route to a Spark IP go through Sydney?

Same result if I just do a trace to 125.236.192.9 which is my next hop from my Spark UFB connection to Spark.

And tracing back the other way back to the CGNAT at Trustpower the last reply back I get is from a Vodafone router:

Tracing route to 150.107.173.92 over a maximum of 30 hops

1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms [172.24.12.254]
2 2 ms 1 ms 1 ms [172.24.24.24]
3 3 ms 3 ms 15 ms 125-236-192-9.adsl.xtra.co.nz [125.236.192.9]
4 * * * Request timed out.
5 28 ms 27 ms 27 ms ae8-20.akcr11.global-gateway.net.nz [122.56.116.9]
6 26 ms 27 ms 27 ms 203.98.18.65
7 27 ms 27 ms 28 ms 203.97.59.122
8 * * * Request timed out.
9 * * * Request timed out. 10 * * * and so on....

If I trace from Spark to HOP 7 on the Trustpower to Spark trace I get:

1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms [172.24.12.254]
2 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms [172.24.24.24]
3 16 ms 5 ms 7 ms 125-236-192-9.adsl.xtra.co.nz [125.236.192.9]
4 * 26 ms 27 ms mdr-ip24-int.msc.global-gateway.net.nz [122.56.116.6]
5 33 ms 29 ms 28 ms ae8-10.akbr6.global-gateway.net.nz [122.56.116.5]
6 27 ms 27 ms 27 ms ae7-2.akbr7.global-gateway.net.nz [122.56.119.53]
7 53 ms 50 ms 52 ms xe7-0-2.sgbr3.global-gateway.net.nz [202.50.232.10]
8 51 ms 52 ms 51 ms ae2-10.sgbr4.global-gateway.net.nz [202.50.232.246]
9 55 ms 53 ms 51 ms pacnet.sgbr4.global-gateway.net.nz [202.50.237.26]
10 50 ms 51 ms 52 ms ge-0-0-6.gw2.syd5.10026.telstraglobal.net [202.147.14.205]
11 52 ms 52 ms 51 ms gi2-0-0-900.gw1.syd2.10026.telstraglobal.net [202.147.55.90]
12 55 ms 50 ms 51 ms as4648.nsw.ix.asn.au [218.100.52.136]

That's an awfully long way for a packet to get 2.5KM's across town in one direction. Granted, it gets there none the less.