Assumption Island Airport
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Assumption Island Airport is an airfield serving Assumption Island
in the Seychelles
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The island is located about 30 kilometres (19 mi) southeast of the Aldabra Atoll and is part of the Aldabra Group
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of 10 feet (3 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway
designated 13/31 with an concrete
surface measuring 1208 by 12.5 m (3,963.3 by 41 ) and 6.25 metres (21 ft) of grass on each side giving it a total width of 25 metres (82 ft).
Assumption Island
Assumption Island is a small island located at in the Indian Ocean north of Madagascar and is part of the country of the Seychelles. It is located about 30 km southeast of the Aldabra Atoll and is part of the Aldabra Group. It is a single coral island which measures 11.07 km² in area and...
in the Seychelles
Seychelles
Seychelles , officially the Republic of Seychelles , is an island country spanning an archipelago of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean, some east of mainland Africa, northeast of the island of Madagascar....
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The island is located about 30 kilometres (19 mi) southeast of the Aldabra Atoll and is part of the Aldabra Group
Aldabra Group
The Aldabra Group are part of the Outer Islands of the Seychelles, lying in the southwest of the island nation, 1000 kilometres from the capital, Victoria, on Mahé Island.The total land area of the Aldabra Group is 175.91 km²....
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Facilities
The airport resides at an elevationElevation
The elevation of a geographic location is its height above a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface ....
of 10 feet (3 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway
Runway
According to ICAO a runway is a "defined rectangular area on a land aerodrome prepared for the landing and take-off of aircraft." Runways may be a man-made surface or a natural surface .- Orientation and dimensions :Runways are named by a number between 01 and 36, which is generally one tenth...
designated 13/31 with an concrete
Concrete
Concrete is a composite construction material, composed of cement and other cementitious materials such as fly ash and slag cement, aggregate , water and chemical admixtures.The word concrete comes from the Latin word...
surface measuring 1208 by 12.5 m (3,963.3 by 41 ) and 6.25 metres (21 ft) of grass on each side giving it a total width of 25 metres (82 ft).