Nova Scotia
Halifax Region
Halifax

Sable Island Airport

Sable Island Aerodrome, is located on , , Canada. The term aerodrome is somewhat of a misnomer since there is no actual airport infrastructure nor is there a runway on Sable Island.
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  • Type: Aerodrome
  • Description: airport in Nova Scotia, Canada
  • Also known as: “Sable Island Aerodrome” and “YSA”
  • Address: Sable Island, Nova Scotia

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sable Island.

Photo: Gierszep, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is an island off the coast of , , and a Canadian national park reserve. It is a remote place without services that is hundreds of kilometres from anywhere else – there were only 806 visitors in 2022–23.

Sable Island Airport

Latitude
43.92934° or 43° 55′ 46″ north
Longitude
-59.95965° or 59° 57′ 35″ west
Elevation
4 metres (13 feet)
Operator
Parks Canada
IATA airport code
YSA
Open location code
88M2W2HR+P4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4053142015
Open­Street­Map feature
aeroway=­aerodrome
Geo­Names ID
6301477
Wiki­data ID
Q7396251
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Satellite Map

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

From Cebuano to Tajik—“Sable Island Airport” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Sable Island Airport”
  • French: “aérodrome de Sable Island”
  • French: “Aérodrome de Sable Island”
  • Indonesian: “YSA”
  • Persian: “فرودگاه سبل ایسلند”
  • Swedish: “Sable Island Airport”
  • Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи сбл Исландия”

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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 “Sable Island Airport”. Photo: HiFlyChick, CC BY-SA 3.0.