Lake Union Seaplane Base
Kenmore Air Harbor Seaplane Base, or Seattle Lake Union Seaplane Base, is a seaplane base and international airport on Lake Union, Washington, U.S, 1 nautical mile north of Downtown Seattle.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Aerodrome
- Description: airport in Washington, United States of America
- Also known as: “Kenmore Air Harbor Seaplane Base”, “Kenmore Air Seaplane Terminal”, “Kurtzer Lake Union Seaplane Airport”, “LKE”, and “Seattle Lake Union Seaplane Base”
- Address: 950 Westlake Avenue North, Seattle, WA 98109
Places of Interest
Highlights include Museum of History & Industry and Northwest Seaport.
Museum of History & Industry
Museum
Photo: Dennis Bratland, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Museum of History & Industry is a history museum in the South Lake Union neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, United States. It is the largest private heritage organization in Washington state, maintaining a collection of nearly four million artifacts, photographs, and archival materials primarily focusing on Seattle and the greater Puget Sound region.
Northwest Seaport
Museum
Photo: Daniel Ramirez, CC BY 2.0.
Northwest Seaport Maritime Heritage Center is a nonprofit organization in Seattle, Washington dedicated to the preservation and interpretation of Puget Sound and Northwest Coast maritime heritage, expressed through educational programs and experiences available to the public aboard its ships.
Naval Reserve Armory
Public building
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Naval Reserve Armory is a landmark building in the South Lake Union neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, United States. Since 2012, it has been the home of the Museum of History and Industry, a local history museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Westlake and Queen Anne-South Lake Union.
Westlake
Neighborhood
Photo: David Lee, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Westlake is a neighborhood in Seattle, Washington. It was named after its location on the western shore of Lake Union. It is a relatively narrow neighborhood, there being only a few blocks between the shoreline and its western limit at Aurora Avenue N., beyond which is Queen Anne.
Queen Anne-South Lake Union
Photo: Lumpytrout, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Northwest of Downtown Seattle, Queen Anne is a hilly residential neighborhood with marvelous views of the city's skyline. Magnolia, a wealthy residential neighborhood, sits on a peninsula west of Queen Anne, separated from Queen Anne by Interbay, an unexpected commercial and industrial strip in the valley between the two hilly neighborhoods.
South Lake Union
Neighborhood
Photo: Jmabel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
South Lake Union is a neighborhood in central Seattle, Washington, so named because it is at the southern tip of Lake Union. The official boundaries of the City of Seattle Urban Center are Denny Way on the south, beyond which is Denny Triangle; Interstate…
Lake Union Seaplane Base
- Categories: seaplane base, commercial traffic aerodrome, and transportation
- Location: King County, Puget Sound, Washington, Pacific Northwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
47.62831° or 47° 37′ 42″ northLongitude
-122.33919° or 122° 20′ 21″ westElevation
30 feet (9 metres)Operator
Kenmore AirIATA airport code
LKEFAA airport code
W55United Nations Location Code
US KEHOpen location code
84VVJMH6+88OpenStreetMap ID
node 985938850OpenStreetMap feature
aeroway=aerodrome
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Urdu—“Lake Union Seaplane Base” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Lake Union Seaplane Base”
- Chinese: “联合湖水上飞机场”
- Chinese: “聯合湖水上飛機場”
- Dutch: “Kenmore Air Harbor Seaplane Base”
- French: “aérodrome de Kenmore Air Harbor”
- French: “Aérodrome de Kenmore Air Harbor”
- French: “W55”
- Indonesian: “LKE”
- Navajo: “Béésh Yótʼááh Ííʼáhíidi chidí naatʼaʼí táłkááʼ ńdanidaahígi”
- Persian: “پایگاه آب نشین کنمور”
- Persian: “پایگاه آبنشین کنمور”
- Persian: “پایگاه اب نشین کنمور”
- Tajik: “Пойгоҳи обншстн кнмур”
- Urdu: “کینمور ایئرہاربر سی پلین بیس”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Cascade and Uptown.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Argosy Cruises - Lake Union and Kenmore Air.
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