Bikini Atoll Airport
Encyclopedia
Bikini Atoll Airport, also known as Enyu Airfield, is a public use airstrip at Enyu on Bikini Atoll
, Marshall Islands
. This airstrip is assigned the location identifier
BII by the IATA
. The airstrip enables access to diving and shipwrecks.
measuring 4,460 x 140 ft (1,359 x 42.5 m).
Bikini Atoll
Bikini Atoll is an atoll, listed as a World Heritage Site, in the Micronesian Islands of the Pacific Ocean, part of Republic of the Marshall Islands....
, Marshall Islands
Marshall Islands
The Republic of the Marshall Islands , , is a Micronesian nation of atolls and islands in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, just west of the International Date Line and just north of the Equator. As of July 2011 the population was 67,182...
. This airstrip is assigned the location identifier
Location identifier
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.-ICAO...
BII by the IATA
International Air Transport Association
The International Air Transport Association is an international industry trade group of airlines headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, where the International Civil Aviation Organization is also headquartered. The executive offices are at the Geneva Airport in SwitzerlandIATA's mission is to...
. The airstrip enables access to diving and shipwrecks.
Facilities
Bikini Atoll Airport has one runwayRunway
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...
measuring 4,460 x 140 ft (1,359 x 42.5 m).