| Marie Louise Island Airport | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Private | ||||||||||
| Operator | Islands Development Corporation (IDC) [1] | ||||||||||
| Location | Marie Louise Island, Seychelles | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 10 ft / 3 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 06°10′40″S53°08′45″E / 6.17778°S 53.14583°E | ||||||||||
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  FSMA Location of the airport in Seychelles | |||||||||||
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Marie Louise Island Airport( ICAO : FSMA) is an airstrip serving Marie Louise Island in the Seychelles. The runway is along the eastern shore of the island.
The ICAOairport code or location indicator is a four-letter code designating aerodromes around the world. These codes, as defined by the International Civil Aviation Organization and published in ICAO Document 7910: Location Indicators, are used by air traffic control and airline operations such as flight planning.
Marie Louise Island is a low-lying coral island in the Amirantes group of the Outer Islands of the Republic of Seychelles, in the western Indian Ocean, with a distance of 308 km south-west of Victoria, Seychelles.
Seychelles, officially the Republic of Seychelles, is an archipelago country in the Indian Ocean. The capital of the 115-island country, Victoria, lies 1,500 kilometres (932 mi) east of mainland East Africa. Other nearby island countries and territories include Comoros, Mayotte, Madagascar, Réunion and Mauritius to the south; as well as the Maldives and British Indian Ocean Territory to the east. With a population of roughly 94,228, it has the smallest population of any sovereign African country.
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Marie Louise Island is 308 kilometres (191 mi) southwest of Victoria, the capital of the Seychelles.
Victoria is the capital and largest city of Seychelles, situated on the north-eastern side of Mahé island, the archipelago's main island. The city was first established as the seat of the British colonial government. In 2010, the population of Greater Victoria was 26,450 out of the country's total population of 90,945.
