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Falkland Islands

Mount Pleasant Airport

RAF Mount Pleasant is a Royal Air Force station in the British Overseas Territory of the . The airfield goes by the motto of "Defend the right" and is part of the British Forces South Atlantic Islands.
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  • Type: Aerodrome
  • Description: Royal Air Force station in the Falkland Islands
  • Also known as: “EGYP”, “Mount Pleasant Complex”, “Mount Pleasent Complex”, “MPA”, “MPN”, and “RAF Mount Pleasant”
  • Address: Mount Pleasant Complex, FIQQ 1ZZ

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mare Harbour.

Village
, known colloquially as East Cove Port, is a small settlement on , on . It is mostly used as a port facility and depot for RAF Mount Pleasant, as well as a deepwater port used by the Royal Navy ships patrolling the South Atlantic and , which means that the main harbour of the islands, Stanley Harbour, tends to deal with commercial transport. is situated 5 miles south of Mount Pleasant Airport.

Mount Pleasant Airport

Latitude
-51.82085° or 51° 49′ 15″ south
Longitude
-58.45649° or 58° 27′ 23″ west
Elevation
243 feet (74 metres)
Operator
Royal Air Force
IATA airport code
MPN
ICAO airport code
EGYP
Open location code
38W35GHV+MC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 30353161
Open­Street­Map feature
aeroway=­aerodrome
Open­Street­Map feature
military=­airfield
Geo­Names ID
6296679
Wiki­data ID
Q2071294
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Turkish—“Mount Pleasant Airport” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “قاعدة جبل بليزنت الجوية”
  • Asturian: “Base Aérea de Mount Pleasant”
  • Asturian: “EGYP”
  • Asturian: “MPN”
  • Asturian: “RAF Mount Pleasant”
  • Cebuano: “Mount Pleasant”
  • Chinese: “快活岭空军基地”
  • Chinese: “快活嶺皇家空軍基地”
  • Chinese: “快活嶺空軍基地”
  • Chinese: “福克蘭群島斯坦利機場”
  • Chinese: “芒特普莱森特皇家空军基地”
  • Croatian: “RAF Mount Pleasant”
  • Dutch: “RAF Mount Pleasant”
  • French: “RAF Mount Pleasant”
  • German: “Mount Pleasant”
  • German: “RAF Mount Pleasant”
  • Hebrew: “בסיס חיל האוויר המלכותי מאונט פלזנט”
  • Indonesian: “Bandar Udara RAF Mount Pleasant”
  • Indonesian: “EGYP”
  • Indonesian: “MPN”
  • Italian: “Aeroporto Mount Pleasant”
  • Italian: “Base aerea di Mount Pleasant”
  • Italian: “RAF Mount Pleasant”
  • Japanese: “マウント・プレザント”
  • Japanese: “マウント・プレザント空港”
  • Japanese: “マウント・プレザント空軍基地”
  • Korean: “마운트플레전트 공군기지”
  • Latvian: “Mauntplezantas aviobāze”
  • Malay: “Lapangan Terbang Mount Pleasant, Kepulauan Falkland”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “EGYP”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mount Pleasant Airport”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “MPN”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “RAF Mount Pleasant”
  • Norwegian: “RAF Mount Pleasant”
  • Persian: “EGYP”
  • Persian: “MPN”
  • Persian: “فرودگاه نیروی هوایی سلطنتی ماونت پلزنت”
  • Polish: “Port lotniczy Mount Pleasant”
  • Portuguese: “Base aérea de Mount Pleasant”
  • Portuguese: “RAF Mount Pleasant”
  • Russian: “Маунт-Плезант (аэропорт)”
  • Russian: “Маунт-Плезант”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “RAF Mount Pleasant”
  • Spanish: “Aeropuerto de Mount Pleasant”
  • Spanish: “Base Aerea de Monte Agradable”
  • Spanish: “Base Aérea de Monte Agradable”
  • Spanish: “Base Aerea de Mount Pleasant”
  • Spanish: “Base Aerea Monte Agradable”
  • Spanish: “Mount Pleasant”
  • Spanish: “RAF Mount Pleasant”
  • Swedish: “Mount Pleasant, Falklandsöarna”
  • Swedish: “Mount Pleasant”
  • Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи нерӯе ҳаво салтанате мовнт плзнт”
  • Turkish: “RAF Mount Pleasant”

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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 “Mount Pleasant Airport”. Photo: Donald Morrison, CC BY 2.0.