Northern Peninsula Airport (formerly Bamaga Airport) | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Operator | Northern Peninsula Area Regional Council | ||||||||||
| Location | Bamaga, Queensland, Australia | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 34 ft / 10 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 10°57′03″S 142°27′34″E / 10.95083°S 142.45944°E | ||||||||||
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  YNPE Location in Queensland | |||||||||||
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Northern Peninsula Airport (IATA: ABM, ICAO: YNPE) is an airport serving Bamaga, a town near the northern tip of the Cape York Peninsula and is located 5 nautical miles (9.3 km; 5.8 mi) southeast of Injinoo in Queensland, Australia. The airport is operated by the Northern Peninsula Area Regional Council.[1] It was known as Bamaga Airport or Bamaga/Injinoo Airport and had the ICAO code YBAM.[2]
Facilities
The airport resides at an elevation of 34 ft (10 m) above sea level. It has one runway designated 13/31 with an asphalt surface measuring 1,834 m × 30 m (6,017 ft × 98 ft).[1]
History
Built in late 1942 and known as Jacky Jacky Field, the airfield was renamed Higgins Field in 1943 in honour of Flight Lieutenant Brian Hartley Higgins. Operated as a dispersal field for Horn Island.
Royal Australian Air Force units based at Higgins Field during World War II included:[3]
- No. 1 Repair and Salvage Unit RAAF[4]
- No. 5 Repair and Salvage Unit RAAF
- No. 7 Squadron RAAF
- No. 23 Squadron RAAF
- No. 33 Operational Base Unit RAAF
- No. 34 Squadron RAAF
- No. 52 Radar Station RAAF was at nearby Mutee Head
- 105th Light Field Ambulance
Airlines and destinations
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Skytrans Airlines | Cairns, Horn Island[5] |
See also
References
- 1 2 3 YNPE – Northern Peninsula (PDF). AIP En Route Supplement from Airservices Australia, effective 2023-11-30, Aeronautical Chart
- ↑ "Airport information for YBAM". World Aero Data. Archived from the original on 5 March 2019.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) Data current as of October 2006. - ↑ Peter Dunn (3 August 2016). "Higgins Field, Qld during WW2". Australia @ War. Retrieved 19 August 2016.
- ↑ "RAAF Base Higgins". RAAF Museum. Retrieved 19 August 2016.
- ↑ "Skytrans to help fill the void after Rex announces departure from Bamaga". Cairns York Weekly. 27 September 2023. Archived from the original on 17 October 2023. Retrieved 26 October 2023.