Iqaluit Airport
Iqaluit Airport is an airport in Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada. It hosts scheduled passenger service from Ottawa, Rankin Inlet, and Kuujjuaq on carriers such as Canadian North, and from smaller communities throughout eastern Nunavut.Photo: US Mission Canada, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Aerodrome
- Description: regional airport serving Iqaluit, Canada
- Also known as: “CYFB”, “Frobisher Bay Air Base”, and “YFB”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Aaqqigiarvik Correctional Healing Facility and St. Jude’s Cathedral.
Aaqqigiarvik Correctional Healing Facility
Prison
Photo: OhanaUnited, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Aaqqigiarvik Correctional Healing Facility is a minimum to maximum security correctional facility in Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada. It is the largest correctional facility in the territory.
St. Jude’s Cathedral
Church
Photo: Cwk36, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St. Jude's Cathedral is the Anglican cathedral in Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada. The cathedral is the seat of the Diocese of The Arctic, which covers the Northwest Territories, Nunavut, and the Nunavik region of Northern Quebec.
Nunatta Sunakkutaangit Museum
Museum
Photo: David Stanley, CC BY 2.0.
The Nunatta Sunakkutaangit Museum is a museum of Nunavut history and Inuit culture, located in Iqaluit, Nunavut. The museum was founded in 1969 by two employees of Canada's Department of Indian Affairs.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Iqaluit and Apex.
Iqaluit
Photo: Saffron Blaze, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Iqaluit is the capital and largest settlement of the Canadian territory of Nunavut. It is on a southeastern inlet of Baffin Island. As of 2016, the population stood at just over 7,700 people.
Apex
Hamlet
Photo: Torbenbrinker, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Apex is a small community outside Iqaluit located on Baffin Island in Nunavut, Canada. It is about 5 km southeast of Iqaluit on a small peninsula separating Koojesse Inlet from Tarr Inlet.
Iqaluit Airport
- Categories: airport, commercial traffic aerodrome, air base, and transportation
- Location: Nunavut, Northern Canada, Canada, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
63.75682° or 63° 45′ 25″ northLongitude
-68.55602° or 68° 33′ 22″ westElevation
33 metres (108 feet)Operator
Government of NunavutIATA airport code
YFBICAO airport code
CYFBUnited Nations Location Code
CA YFBOpen location code
97MHQC4V+PHOpenStreetMap ID
way 650829816OpenStreetMap feature
aeroway=aerodrome
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Satellite Map
Discover Iqaluit Airport from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Tajik—“Iqaluit Airport” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Iqaluit Airport”
- Chinese: “伊卡卢伊特机场”
- Chinese: “伊魁特機場”
- Czech: “Letiště Iqaluit”
- Dutch: “Luchthaven Iqaluit”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مطار ايكالويت”
- Finnish: “Iqaluitin lentoasema”
- French: “aéroport d’Iqaluit”
- French: “Aéroport d’Iqaluit”
- German: “Flughafen Iqaluit”
- German: “Iqaluit Airport”
- Hungarian: “Iqaluiti repülőtér”
- Indonesian: “Bandar Udara Iqaluit”
- Indonesian: “CYFB”
- Indonesian: “YFB”
- Inuktitut: “ᐃᖃᓗᖕᓂ ᒥᑦᑕᕐᕕᒃ”
- Italian: “aeroporto di Iqaluit”
- Japanese: “YFB”
- Japanese: “イカルイト空港”
- Malay: “Lapangan Terbang Iqaluit”
- Persian: “CYFB”
- Persian: “YFB”
- Persian: “فرودگاه ایقالیوت”
- Persian: “فرودگاه ایکالیوت”
- Piemontese: “Iqaluit Airport”
- Polish: “Port lotniczy Iqaluit”
- Romanian: “Aeroportul Iqaluit”
- Russian: “Икалуит”
- Spanish: “Aeropuerto de Iqaluit”
- Spanish: “CYFB”
- Spanish: “YFB”
- Swedish: “Iqaluit Airport”
- Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи Икалуит”
- Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи оиколют”
Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Iqaluit Airport (YFB) and Iqaluit.
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