Remire Island Airport
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Remire Island Airport is an airfield serving Remire Island in the Seychelles
. It has the shortest runway of all aerodromes in the Seychelles.
of 10 feet (3 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway
designated 14/32 with a concrete
surface measuring 478 by 10 m (1,568.2 by 32.8 ) and 6.5 metres (21 ft) of grass on each side giving it a total width of 23 metres (75 ft).
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....
. It has the shortest runway of all aerodromes in the Seychelles.
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 14/32 with a 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 478 by 10 m (1,568.2 by 32.8 ) and 6.5 metres (21 ft) of grass on each side giving it a total width of 23 metres (75 ft).