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Christmas Island

Christmas Island Airport

Christmas Island International Airport is an airport located on , a territory of Australia in the Indian Ocean. The island is located 2,600 km northwest of the Western Australian city of Perth, 500 km south of the Indonesian capital, , and 975 km east-northeast of the .
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  • Type: Aerodrome
  • Description: airport on Christmas Island
  • Also known as: “CHRISTMAS ISLAND”, “Christmas Island International Airport”, “XCH”, and “YPXM”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Christmas Island Resort and Christmas Island District High School.

Resort
The , often called the Christmas Island Casino, was a holiday resort on , an territory in the north-eastern Indian Ocean about 380 kilometres south of and 1,600 kilometres north-west of the Australian mainland.

School
is a public co-educational early learning, , and high day school located in , a territory of .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Drumsite and Poon Saan.

Neighborhood
is a village in . The village's population consists mostly of Chinese and European workers. A project that built townhouses in the village was built in 2013 amid concerns about asylum seekers going to Christmas Island.

Neighborhood
is the second largest village on , an external territory of . Ethnic Chinese make up the majority of inhabitants. In Cantonese, means "halfway up the hill".

Neighborhood
is a within in the Australian overseas territory of . The population is made up of a mixture of various ethnicities such as Chinese, European, and Malay.

Christmas Island Airport

Latitude
-10.45015° or 10° 27′ 1″ south
Longitude
105.6904° or 105° 41′ 25″ east
Elevation
279 metres (915 feet)
Operator
Toll Remote Logistics
IATA airport code
XCH
ICAO airport code
YPXM
Open location code
5PX7GMXR+W5
Open­Street­Map ID
way 371564248
Open­Street­Map feature
aeroway=­aerodrome
Geo­Names ID
6301340
Wiki­data ID
Q1035011
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Satellite Map

Discover Christmas Island Airport from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Turkish—“Christmas Island Airport” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Aeropuertu d’Islla Christmas”
  • Asturian: “XCH”
  • Asturian: “YPXM”
  • Cebuano: “Christmas Island Aerodrome”
  • Chinese: “聖誕島機場”
  • Dutch: “Christmas Island Airport”
  • Esperanto: “Flughaveno Kristnaskinsulo”
  • Esperanto: “XCH”
  • Esperanto: “YPXM”
  • Finnish: “Joulusaaren kansainvälinen lentoasema”
  • Finnish: “Joulusaaren lentoasema”
  • French: “aéroport de l’île Christmas”
  • French: “Aéroport de l’île Christmas”
  • French: “CHRISTMAS ISLAND”
  • French: “XCH”
  • French: “YPXM”
  • German: “Flughafen Weihnachtsinsel”
  • Indonesian: “Bandar Udara Pulau Natal”
  • Indonesian: “XCH”
  • Indonesian: “YPXM”
  • Italian: “Aeroporti nell’Isola di Natale”
  • Italian: “Aeroporto dell’Isola del Natale”
  • Italian: “XCH”
  • Italian: “YPXM”
  • Japanese: “クリスマス島空港”
  • Korean: “크리스마스섬 공항”
  • Latvian: “Ziemsvētku Salas lidosta”
  • Malay: “Lapangan Terbang Christmas I”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Christmasøya internasjonale lufthavn”
  • Norwegian: “Christmasøya internasjonale lufthavn”
  • Persian: “XCH”
  • Persian: “YPXM”
  • Persian: “فرودگاه جزیره کریسمس”
  • Polish: “Port lotniczy Wyspa Bożego Narodzenia”
  • Portuguese: “Aeroporto da Ilha Christmas”
  • Romanian: “Aeroportul Christmas Island”
  • Russian: “YPXM”
  • Russian: “Аэропорт Острова Рождества”
  • Spanish: “Aeropuerto de la Isla de Navidad”
  • Swedish: “Christmas Island Aerodrome”
  • Swedish: “Julöns flygplats”
  • Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи ҷазира крисмс”
  • Turkish: “Christmas Adası Havalimanı”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Kampong and Flying Fish Cove.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Christmas Island Airport and CHRISTMAS ISLAND AERO.

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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 “Christmas Island Airport”. Photo: Paullymac, CC BY-SA 3.0.