Nanisivik Airport
Nanisivik Airport, formerly, was located 8 nautical miles south of Nanisivik, Nunavut, Canada, and was operated by the Government of Nunavut. Although Nanisivik Mine closed in September 2002, the airport was in operation until 2011 and served the community of Arctic Bay.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Aerodrome
- Description: former airport in Nunavut, Canada
- Also known as: “CYSR” and “YSR”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nanisivik Mine.
Nanisivik Mine
Locality
Nanisivik Mine was a zinc-lead mine in the company town of Nanisivik, Nunavut, 750 km north of the Arctic Circle on Baffin Island. It was Canada's first mine in the Arctic.
Nanisivik Airport
- Categories: airport and transportation
- Location: Nunavut, Northern Canada, Canada, North America
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Latitude
72.98143° or 72° 58′ 53″ northLongitude
-84.61493° or 84° 36′ 54″ westElevation
641 metres (2,103 feet)Operator
Government of NunavutIATA airport code
YSRICAO airport code
CYSRUnited Nations Location Code
CA NVKOpen location code
C64QX9JP+H2OpenStreetMap ID
way 473539700OpenStreetMap feature
aeroway=aerodrome
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Finnish to Tajik—“Nanisivik Airport” goes by many names.
- Finnish: “Nanisivikin lentoasema”
- Indonesian: “Bandar Udara Nanisivik”
- Indonesian: “CYSR”
- Indonesian: “YSR”
- Malay: “Lapangan Terbang Nanisivik”
- Persian: “فرودگاه نانیسیویک”
- Piemontese: “Nanisivik Airport”
- Romanian: “Aeroportul Nanisivik”
- Spanish: “Aeropuerto de Nanisivik”
- Spanish: “CYSR”
- Spanish: “YSR”
- Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи Нанисивик”
- Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи нонисюик”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Borden Peninsula and Nanisivik.
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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 “Nanisivik Airport”. Photo: Technicalglitch, CC BY-SA 3.0.