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Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport

Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport is an airport on the island of , . Its runway is widely acknowledged as the shortest commercial runway in the world, with a length of 400 m.
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  • Type: Aerodrome
  • Description: airport on the Caribbean island of Saba
  • Also known as: “Juancho Yrausquin Airport”, “SAB”, “Saba Airport”, “Saba Island Airport”, and “TNCS”
  • Address: Airport Road

Places of Interest

Highlights include Green Island and Mount Scenery.

Islet
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is a small uninhabited islet about 250 metres north of the island of , and is part of the of Saba.

Volcano
Photo: Richie Diesterheft, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a dormant volcano in the . Its lava dome forms the summit of the island stratovolcano. At an elevation of 870 m, it is the highest point in both the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and, since the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles on 10 October 2010, the highest point in the proper.

Church
Photo: Richie Diesterheft, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Holy Rosary Church, also known as the , is a religious building affiliated with the Catholic church in the small town of Hell's Gate on the island of , a dependent territory of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the , Caribbean Sea.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Flat Point and Zion’s Hill.

Locality
is an area on the northeastern coast of , an island in the Dutch Caribbean. It is located in the lower part of the village, known as Lower Hell's Gate.

Village
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Zion's Hill, also known by its former name Hell's Gate, is a town on the Dutch Caribbean island of . Locally, it is divided into Upper Hell's Gate and Lower Hell's Gate.

Village
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is the second largest town on the Dutch Caribbean island of , aptly named for being on the windward side of the island.

Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport

Latitude
17.64521° or 17° 38′ 43″ north
Longitude
-63.22102° or 63° 13′ 16″ west
Elevation
37 metres (121 feet)
IATA airport code
SAB
ICAO airport code
TNCS
Open location code
779RJQWH+3H
Open­Street­Map ID
way 136308420
Open­Street­Map feature
aeroway=­aerodrome
Geo­Names ID
3513628
Wiki­data ID
Q1137714
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Western Frisian—“Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Juancho E. Yrausquin-lughawe”
  • Bengali: “হুয়ানকো ই. ইরাওস্কেন বিমানবন্দর”
  • Catalan: “Aeroport Juancho E. Yrausquin”
  • Cebuano: “Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport”
  • Chinese: “胡安乔·E·伊劳斯金机场”
  • Chinese: “胡安彻·亚拉斯奎恩机场”
  • Chinese: “胡安徹·亞拉斯奎恩機場”
  • Dutch: “Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport”
  • Dutch: “Saba Airport”
  • Dutch: “TNCS”
  • Finnish: “Juancho E. Yrausquinin lentoasema”
  • Finnish: “Saban lentoasema”
  • French: “aéroport de Saba”
  • French: “aéroport Juancho E. Yrausquin”
  • French: “Aéroport Juancho E. Yrausquin”
  • Galician: “Aeroporto Juancho E. Yrausquin”
  • German: “Flughafen Juancho E. Yrausquin”
  • German: “Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport”
  • Indonesian: “Bandar Udara Juancho E. Yrausquin”
  • Indonesian: “SAB”
  • Indonesian: “TNCS”
  • Italian: “Aeroporto di Saba-Juancho E. Yrausquin”
  • Italian: “Aeroporto di Saba”
  • Italian: “Aeroporto Yrausquin”
  • Japanese: “サバ空港”
  • Japanese: “ファンチョ・E・ヨラウスクィン飛行場”
  • Korean: “후안초 E. 이라우스퀸 공항”
  • Malay: “Lapangan Terbang Juancho Yrausquin”
  • Papiamento: “Aeropuerto Juancho E. Irausquin”
  • Persian: “SAB”
  • Persian: “TNCS”
  • Persian: “فرودگاه یوانخو ئی. یروسخین”
  • Polish: “Port lotniczy Juancho E. Yrausquin”
  • Portuguese: “Aeroporto Juancho E. Yrausquin”
  • Romanian: “Aeroportul Juancho E. Yrausquin”
  • Russian: “Аэропорт Хуанчо-Ираускин”
  • Spanish: “Aeropuerto Juancho E. Yrausquin”
  • Swedish: “Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport”
  • Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи юонху еҳи. ирусхин”
  • Thai: “ท่าอากาศยานฮวนโช เอ. อิเราส์กิน”
  • Turkish: “Juancho E. Yrausquin Havalimanı”
  • Western Frisian: “Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport”

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Highlights include Fire Department Saba and Solar Park Saba.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport”. Photo: Lagopus, CC BY-SA 3.0.