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The geographic layout of the physical Internet inherently determines important network properties. In this paper, we analyze the spatial properties of the Internet topology. In particular, the distribution of the lengths of Internet links is presented--which was possible through spatial embedding of a representative set of IP addresses by applying a novel IP geolocalization service, called Spotter. The dataset is a result of a geographically dispersed topological discovery campaign. After showing the spatial likelihood of Internet nodes we present two approaches to describe the length distribution of the links. The resulting characterization reveals that the distribution can be separated into three characteristic distance ranges which can be mapped to the regional, transcontinental and intercontinental connections. These regimes follow a power-law function with different exponents.