South America
Falkland Islands

Port Stanley Airport

Port Stanley Airport, also known as Stanley Airport, is a small civil in the , two miles from the capital, . The airport is the only civilian airport in the islands with a paved runway.
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  • Type: Aerodrome
  • Description: airport in Stanley, Falkland Islands
  • Also known as: “PSY”, “RAF Stanley”, and “SFAL”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Canopus Hill.

Peak
is located on the of near , the capital city of the . It is named after HMS Canopus, which fired the first shots in the Battle of the Falkland Islands during World War I.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Cape Pembroke and Moody Brook.

Locality
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is the easternmost point of the , and is on . There is an automated lighthouse here.

Locality
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is a small watercourse that flows into Stanley Harbour on , . It is near , just to the northwest, and was formerly the location of the town barracks, which were attacked in Operation Rosario, the 1982 Argentine Invasion of the Falkland Islands. is situated 6 miles west of Port Stanley Airport.

Port Stanley Airport

Latitude
-51.6859° or 51° 41′ 9″ south
Longitude
-57.77827° or 57° 46′ 42″ west
Elevation
72 feet (22 metres)
Operator
Falkland Islands Government
IATA airport code
PSY
ICAO airport code
SFAL
Open location code
38W4867C+JM
Open­Street­Map ID
way 547237815
Open­Street­Map feature
aeroway=­aerodrome
Geo­Names ID
6300726
Wiki­data ID
Q1432457
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Satellite Map

Discover Port Stanley Airport from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Turkish—“Port Stanley Airport” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Aeropuertu de Puertu Arxentín”
  • Asturian: “Aeropuertu de Puertu Stanley”
  • Asturian: “Aeropuertu de Stanley”
  • Asturian: “PSY”
  • Asturian: “SFAL”
  • Cebuano: “Port Stanley Airport”
  • Danish: “Port Stanley”
  • Dutch: “Luchthaven Port Stanley”
  • French: “Aérodrome de Port Stanley”
  • French: “aéroport de Port Stanley”
  • German: “Flughafen Port Stanley”
  • German: “Port Stanley Airport”
  • German: “SFAL”
  • Hebrew: “נמל התעופה פורט סטנלי”
  • Indonesian: “Bandar udara port stanley”
  • Indonesian: “Bandar Udara Port Stanley”
  • Indonesian: “PSY”
  • Indonesian: “SFAL”
  • Italian: “aeroporto di Port Stanley”
  • Japanese: “ポート・スタンリー空港”
  • Korean: “포트 스탠리 공항”
  • Malay: “Lapangan Terbang Stanley, Kepulauan Falkland”
  • Malay: “Lapangan Terbang Stanley”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Port Stanley Airport”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “SFAL”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Stanley Airport”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Stanley lufthavn”
  • Norwegian: “Stanley lufthavn”
  • Persian: “فرودگاه پورت استنلی”
  • Polish: “Port lotniczy Port Stanley”
  • Portuguese: “Aeroporto de Port Stanley”
  • Romanian: “Aeroportul Port Stanley”
  • Russian: “Аэропорт Порт-Стэнли”
  • Spanish: “Aeropuerto de Puerto Argentino”
  • Spanish: “Aeropuerto de Puerto Argentino/Stanley”
  • Swedish: “Port Stanley Airport”
  • Swedish: “Stanley Airport”
  • Turkish: “Port Stanley Havalimanı”

Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include FIGAS Falklands Islands Government Air Service and Old Portuguese gun.

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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 “Port Stanley Airport”. Photo: Apcbg, Public domain.