Papa Westray Airport
Papa Westray Airport is located 22 NM north of Kirkwall Airport on Papa Westray, Orkney Islands, Scotland. The facility is best known for being one of the two airports joined by the shortest scheduled flight in the world, a leg of Loganair's inter-island service, to Westray Airport.Photo: Me677, Public domain.
- Type: Aerodrome
- Description: airport in Orkney Islands, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “EGEP”, “Papa Westray”, and “PPW”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Papa Westray and Knap of Howar.
Papa Westray
Photo: Kristel Jeuring, CC BY 2.0.
Papa Westray is one of the Orkney Islands north of mainland Scotland - nearly the northernmost, but North Ronaldsay edges it by half a mile. Papa Westray measures 4 miles north-south and a mile across, and is more low-lying and fertile than nearby Westray.
Knap of Howar
Archaeological site
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Knap of Howar on the island of Papa Westray in Orkney, Scotland, is a Neolithic farmstead which may be the oldest preserved stone house in northern Europe.
St Boniface’s Church
Church
Photo: Lis Burke, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Boniface's Church, Papa Westray is a historic church and graveyard located on the island of Papa Westray in Orkney, Scotland. The site of the church dates back to the Iron Age and was possibly used later as a Christian monastery.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pierowall.
Pierowall
Village
Photo: David Wyatt, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Pierowall is a village of Westray in the Orkney Islands, off the coast of the northern Scottish mainland. The village is the island's largest settlement and lies near its northern end, around Pierowall Bay.
Papa Westray Airport
- Categories: commercial traffic aerodrome and transportation
- Location: Orkney Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
59.35121° or 59° 21′ 4″ northLongitude
-2.8987° or 2° 53′ 55″ westElevation
92 feet (28 metres)Operator
Orkney Islands CouncilIATA airport code
PPWICAO airport code
EGEPOpen location code
9CFV9422+FGOpenStreetMap ID
node 87893858OpenStreetMap feature
aeroway=aerodromeGeoNames ID
7303336Wikidata ID
Q2033856
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Welsh—“Papa Westray Airport” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “帕帕韋斯特雷機場”
- Finnish: “Papa Westrayn lentoasema”
- French: “aérodrome de Papa Westray”
- French: “Aérodrome de Papa Westray”
- German: “Flughafen Papa Westray”
- German: “Papa Westray Airport”
- Indonesian: “EGEP”
- Indonesian: “PPW”
- Japanese: “パパ・ウェストレー空港”
- Japanese: “パパ・ウェストレイ空港”
- Japanese: “パパ・ウエストレイ空港”
- Malay: “Lapangan Terbang Papa Westray”
- Persian: “فرودگاه پاپا وست ری”
- Persian: “فرودگاه پاپا وستری”
- Piemontese: “Papa Westray Airport”
- Polish: “Port lotniczy Papa Westray”
- Romanian: “Aeroportul Papa Westray”
- Russian: “Папа Вестрэй”
- Russian: “Папа-Уэстрей”
- Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи попо вистрий”
- Thai: “ท่าอากาศยานแพปาเวสตรีย์”
- Turkish: “Papa Westray Havalimanı”
- Vietnamese: “Sân bay Papa Westray”
- Welsh: “Maes Awyr Papa Westray”
Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Beltane House and The Kelp Store.
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