Kirkwall Airport
Kirkwall Airport is the main airport serving Orkney in Scotland. It is located 2.5 NM southeast of Kirkwall and is owned by Highlands and Islands Airports Limited. The airport is used by Loganair.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Aerodrome
- Description: airport in Orkney Islands, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “EGPA”, “Kirkwall”, and “KOI”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mine Howe and Highland Park distillery.
Mine Howe
Archaeological site
Photo: Otter, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mine Howe is an Iron Age subterranean man-made chamber dug 6 meters deep inside a large mound. It is located in the Tankerness area of Orkney, Scotland, about 5 miles southeast of Kirkwall, the capital of Orkney.
Highland Park distillery
Distillery
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Highland Park distillery is an Island single malt Scotch whisky distillery located in Kirkwall on the Orkney Islands,Scotland. It is the northernmost single malt Scotch whisky distillery.
Kirkwall Grammar School
School
Kirkwall Grammar School is a secondary school in Kirkwall, Orkney, Scotland. It was established in c. 1200. The current school building was opened in 2014. It is the largest school in the Orkney Islands, and one of the oldest schools in the world.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include St Andrews and Tankerness.
St Andrews
Locality
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Andrews is a parish on Mainland, Orkney in Scotland. It is located east of the town of Kirkwall and the parish of St Ola and lies north of Holm and west of Deerness.
Tankerness
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tankerness is a district in the St Andrews parish in Mainland, Orkney, Scotland. Essentially a peninsula, it is about 13 kilometres south-east of Kirkwall and 1 kilometre east of Kirkwall Airport.
Kirkwall Airport
- Categories: airport, commercial traffic aerodrome, and transportation
- Location: Orkney Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
58.95751° or 58° 57′ 27″ northLongitude
-2.89889° or 2° 53′ 56″ westElevation
49 feet (15 metres)Operator
Highlands and Islands Airports LtdIATA airport code
KOIICAO airport code
EGPAOpen location code
9CCVX452+2COpenStreetMap ID
way 75038901OpenStreetMap feature
aeroway=aerodromeGeoNames ID
6296621Wikidata ID
Q1431732
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Vietnamese—“Kirkwall Airport” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Kirkwall Airport”
- Chinese: “奥克尼岛柯克沃尔(KOI)”
- Chinese: “奧克尼島柯克沃爾(KOI)”
- Chinese: “柯克沃爾機場”
- Czech: “Letiště Kirkwall”
- Danish: “Kirkwall Airport”
- Finnish: “Kirkwallin lentoasema”
- French: “aérodrome de Royaume Uni”
- French: “aéroport de Kirkwall”
- French: “Aéroport de Kirkwall”
- French: “EGPA”
- French: “Kirkwall”
- French: “KOI”
- German: “EGPA”
- German: “Flughafen Kirkwall”
- German: “KOI”
- Indonesian: “EGPA”
- Indonesian: “KOI”
- Italian: “aeroporto di Kirkwall”
- Japanese: “カークウォール空港”
- Japanese: “メインランド島”
- Malay: “Lapangan Terbang Kirkwall”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “EGPA”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kirkwall lufthavn”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “KOI”
- Norwegian: “Kirkwall lufthavn”
- Persian: “EGPA”
- Persian: “KOI”
- Persian: “فرودگاه کرکوال”
- Piemontese: “Kirkwall Airport”
- Polish: “Port lotniczy Kirkwall”
- Romanian: “Aeroportul Kirkwall”
- Russian: “Керкуолл (аэропорт)”
- Russian: “Керкуолл”
- Russian: “Кирквол (аэропорт)”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Port Adhair Bhaile na h-Eaglais”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Port-adhair Bhaile na h-Eaglais”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Port-adhair Bhaile na h-Eaglaise”
- Slovak: “Letisko Kirkwall”
- Spanish: “Aeropuerto de Kirkwall”
- Swedish: “Kirkwall Airport”
- Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи кркуол”
- Turkish: “Kirkwall Havalimanı”
- Vietnamese: “Sân bay Kirkwall”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Lang Hill and Crairie.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Kirkwall Airport and Juniata.
Orkney Islands: Must-Visit Destinations
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