Yam Island Airport | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Summary | |||||||||||
| Airport type | Private | ||||||||||
| Operator | Torres Strait Island Regional Council | ||||||||||
| Location | Yam Island, Queensland | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 15 ft / 5 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 9°53′57″S142°46′28″E / 9.8993°S 142.7745°E | ||||||||||
| Map | |||||||||||
  YYMI Location in Queensland | |||||||||||
| Runways | |||||||||||
| |||||||||||
Yam Island Airport( IATA : XMY, ICAO : YYMI) is an airport in Yam Island, Queensland, Australia.
| Airlines | Destinations |
|---|---|
| Hinterland Aviation | Coconut Island, Horn Island, Warraber Island, Yorke Island |
| Skytrans Airlines | Coconut Island, Horn Island, Warraber Island, Yorke Island |
Yam or YAM may refer to:
Queensland is a state in north-eastern Australia, the second-largest and third-most populous of the Australian states. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and the Pacific Ocean; to its north is the Torres Strait, separating the Australian mainland from Papua New Guinea, and the Gulf of Carpentaria to the north-west. With an area of 1,729,742 square kilometres (667,857 sq mi), Queensland is the world's sixth-largest sub-national entity; it is larger than all but 16 countries. Due to its size, Queensland's geographical features and climates are diverse, including tropical rainforests, rivers, coral reefs, mountain ranges and sandy beaches in its tropical and sub-tropical coastal regions, as well as deserts and savanna in the semi-arid and desert climatic regions of its interior.
Lip-Air Pty Ltd, operating as Aero-Tropics Air Services (ATAS), was an airline based in Cairns, Queensland, Australia. Its main base was Cairns Airport, with its operating hub at Horn Island Airport.
Skytrans is an Australian owned and operated airline and air charter business based in Cairns. The airline operates RPT and charter services from Cairns, Horn Island, and Brisbane. After being placed in administration in January 2015, Skytrans returned to the skies on 31 March 2015.
Coconut Island, Poruma Island, or Puruma in the local language, is an island in the Great North East Channel near Cumberland Passage, Torres Strait, Queensland, Australia. One of the Torres Strait Islands, Coconut Island is 130 kilometres (81 mi) northeast of Thursday Island. Administratively, Coconut Island is a town and Poruma Island is the locality within the Shire of Torres.
Yam Island, called Yama or Iama in the Kulkalgau Ya language or Turtle-backed Island in English, is an island of the Bourke Isles group of the Torres Strait Islands, located in the Tancred Passage of the Torres Strait in Queensland, Australia. The island is situated approximately 100 kilometres (62 mi) northeast of Thursday Island and measures about 2 square kilometres (0.77 sq mi). The island is an official locality known as Iama Island within the local government area of Torres Strait Island Region. The town, also called Yam Island, is located on the north-west coast of the island. In the 2021 census, Iama Island had a population of 275 people.
The Bourke Isles are a group of islands and islets in the archipelago known as the Torres Strait Islands, located west of the Cumberland Passage in the Torres Strait, and are part of the state of Queensland, Australia. The isles are situated approximately 130 kilometres (81 mi) northeast of Thursday Island and 54 kilometres (34 mi) southwest of Darnley Island.
Badu Island Airport is an airport on Badu Island, Queensland, Australia.
Boigu Island Airport is an airport serving Boigu Island in Queensland, Australia. It was officially opened as the Charlie Gibuma Memorial Airstrip on 26 July 1981 by Hon. Ken Tomkins, then Queensland Minister for Aboriginal and Island Affairs. The airport is operated by the Torres Strait Islands Regional Council.
Darnley Island Airport is an airport in Darnley Island, Queensland, Australia.
Lizard Island Airport is an airport on Lizard Island National Park in Queensland, Australia. It is served from Cairns by Hinterland Aviation.
Mabuiag Island Airport is an airport on Mabuiag Island, Queensland, Australia. The airport received $52,422 in funds for security updates in 2006. It has Australia's shortest runway in commercial service.
Mornington Island Airport is an airport on Mornington Island, Queensland, Australia. It is to the immediate north-west of the town of Gununa.
Palm Island Airport is an airport in Palm Island, on Great Palm Island, Queensland, Australia.
Saibai Island Airport is an airport on Saibai Island, Queensland, Australia.
Warraber Island Airport is an airport in Sue Islet, Queensland, Australia. It was named Nelson Airport and officially opened on 26 November 1977.
Yorke Island Airport is an airport in Yorke Island, Queensland, Australia.
Hinterland Aviation is a regional airline and charter company based at Cairns Airport in Queensland, Australia. The airline operates scheduled flights from Cairns Airport, Horn Island Airport and Townsville Airport.
Masig Island is an island and locality in the Torres Strait Island Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, Masig Island had a population of 283 people.
List of Torres Strait topics | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Torres Strait Islands, islets, and cays |
| ||||||||||||||||||
| People, culture, communities and languages |
| ||||||||||||||||||
| Governance and legal matters |
| ||||||||||||||||||
| Buildings and structures | |||||||||||||||||||
| Other | |||||||||||||||||||
  | This Queensland airport-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
