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Mareeba

Mareeba Airfield

Mareeba Airfield is an airfield located 4.3 nautical miles south of , , . Built in 1942 as a US Army Air Force base during World War II, the airfield had two runways, with a complement of taxiways, hardstands and a containment area.
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  • Type: Aerodrome
  • Description: airport in Queensland, Australia
  • Also known as: “Mareeba Airport”, “MRG”, and “YMBA”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mareeba.

Town
is a rural town and locality in the Shire of in , Australia. Between 2008 and 2013, it was within the Tablelands Region. is situated 9 km north of Mareeba Airfield.

Mareeba Airfield

Latitude
-17.07091° or 17° 4′ 15″ south
Longitude
145.4242° or 145° 25′ 27″ east
Elevation
469 metres (1,539 feet)
IATA airport code
MRG
ICAO airport code
YMBA
Open location code
5RJ7WCHF+JM
Open­Street­Map ID
way 415689095
Open­Street­Map feature
aeroway=­aerodrome
Geo­Names ID
7668738
Wiki­data ID
Q1031208
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Swedish—“Mareeba Airfield” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Mareeba Airport”
  • French: “YMBA”
  • Indonesian: “MRG”
  • Indonesian: “YMBA”
  • Malay: “Lapangan Terbang Mareeba”
  • Persian: “MRG”
  • Persian: “YMBA”
  • Persian: “فرودگاه صحرایی ماریبا”
  • Swedish: “Mareeba Airport”

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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 “Mareeba Airfield”. Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.