Chatham Islands/Tuuta Airport

Chatham Islands / Tuuta Airport is an airport 10.5 nautical miles northeast of Township on the , . The airport, in part named in honor of the Chatham Islander, Inia William Tuuta, who donated the land for the airport, was completed in 1982 to replace a compacted grass airstrip at Te Hapupu that could only handle slow-flying Safe Air Bristol Freighter aircraft.
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  • Type: Aerodrome
  • Description: airport in New Zealand
  • Also known as: “Chatham Is/Tuuta Airport”, “Chatham Islands / Tuuta Airport”, “CHT”, “Inia William Tuuta Airport”, “Inia William Tuuta Memorial Airport”, and “NZCI”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Te Whanga Lagoon.

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dominates the geography of , in the South Pacific Ocean off 's east coast. It covers 160 square kilometres. It is the outflow of several small rivers in the island's hilly south, and drains to the Pacific via gaps in Hanson Bay on the east coast of the island.

Chatham Islands/Tuuta Airport

Latitude
-43.81382° or 43° 48′ 50″ south
Longitude
-176.46492° or 176° 27′ 54″ west
Elevation
13 metres (43 feet)
Operator
Chatham Islands Airport Limited
IATA airport code
CHT
ICAO airport code
NZCI
United Nations Location Code
NZ CHT
Open location code
42855GPP+F2
Open­Street­Map ID
way 53791516
Open­Street­Map feature
aeroway=­aerodrome
Geo­Names ID
6299982
Wiki­data ID
Q1708719
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Tajik—“Chatham Islands/Tuuta Airport” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Chatham Island (tugpahanan)”
  • Cebuano: “Chatham Island”
  • Chinese: “圖塔機場”
  • Chinese: “查塔姆群岛机场”
  • Chinese: “查塔姆群島機場”
  • French: “aéroport des îles Chatam / Tuuta”
  • French: “Aéroport des îles Chatam/Tuuta”
  • German: “Flughafen Tuuta”
  • Indonesian: “CHT”
  • Indonesian: “NZCI”
  • Japanese: “Chatham Islands / Tuuta 空港”
  • Japanese: “チャタム諸島・トゥーナ空港”
  • Japanese: “ツウナ空港”
  • Malay: “Lapangan Terbang Chatham Is/Tuuta”
  • Persian: “فرودگاه چتم آیلند/توتا”
  • Persian: “فرودگاه چتم ایلند/توتا”
  • Polish: “Tuuta Airport”
  • Romanian: “Aeroportul Chatham Islands / Tuuta”
  • Romanian: “Aeroportul Chatham Islands/Tuuta”
  • Spanish: “Aeropuerto Tuuta”
  • Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи чтм оилнд туто”

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