Ine Airport

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Ine Airport
Summary
Serves Ine, Arno Atoll, Marshall Islands
Elevation  AMSL 4 ft / 1 m
Coordinates 07°01′N171°29′E / 7.017°N 171.483°E / 7.017; 171.483 Coordinates: 07°01′N171°29′E / 7.017°N 171.483°E / 7.017; 171.483
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
08/26 2,450 747 Coral gravel

Ine Airport is a public use airstrip located in the village of Ine on Arno Atoll, Marshall Islands. This airstrip is assigned the location identifier N20 by the FAA [1] and IMI by the IATA. [2]

Arno Atoll marshalien atoll

Arno Atoll is a coral atoll of 133 islands in the Pacific Ocean, and forms a legislative district of the Ratak Chain of the Marshall Islands. Its total land area is only 5 square miles (13 km2). Unlike most other atolls, Arno encloses three different lagoons, a large central one, and two smaller ones in the north and east. Its main lagoon encloses an area of 130.77 square miles (338.7 km2). At a distance of only 20 kilometres (12 mi), it is the closest atoll to the Marshall Islands capital, Majuro Atoll, and can be seen looking east from Majuro on a clear day at low tide. The population of Arno Atoll was 1,794 at the 2011 census. The most populous islets are Ajeltokrok, Kobjeltak, Rearlaplap, Langor and Tutu. The largest village is Ine, Arno.

Marshall Islands country in Oceania

The Marshall Islands, officially the Republic of the Marshall Islands, is an island country and a United States associated state near the equator in the Pacific Ocean, slightly west of the International Date Line. Geographically, the country is part of the larger island group of Micronesia. The country's population of 53,158 people is spread out over 29 coral atolls, comprising 1,156 individual islands and islets.

A location identifier is a symbolic representation for the name and the location of an airport, navigation aid, or weather station, and is used for manned air traffic control facilities in air traffic control, telecommunications, computer programming, weather reports, and related services.

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Ine Airport is at an elevation of 4 feet (1.2 m) above mean sea level. The runway is designated 08/26 with a coral gravel surface measuring 2,450 by 50 feet (747 x 15 m). [1] There are no aircraft based at Ine. [1]

Elevation Height of a geographic location above a fixed reference point

The elevation of a geographic location is its height above or below a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface . The term elevation is mainly used when referring to points on the Earth's surface, while altitude or geopotential height is used for points above the surface, such as an aircraft in flight or a spacecraft in orbit, and depth is used for points below the surface.

Runway Area of surface used by aircraft to takeoff from and land on

According to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a runway is a "defined rectangular area on a land aerodrome prepared for the landing and takeoff of aircraft". Runways may be a man-made surface or a natural surface.

Coral Marine invertebrates of the class Anthozoa

Corals are marine invertebrates within the class Anthozoa of the phylum Cnidaria. They typically live in compact colonies of many identical individual polyps. Corals species include the important reef builders that inhabit tropical oceans and secrete calcium carbonate to form a hard skeleton.

Airlines and destinations

AirlinesDestinations
Air Marshall Islands Likiep, Majuro

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 FAA Airport Master Record for N20 ( Form 5010 PDF ), effective 2009-10-22.
  2. ↑ "IMI - Arno Atoll, Marshall Islands - Ine Airport". Great Circle Mapper. Retrieved 2011-01-26.
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