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Moruroa Airport

Moruroa Atoll, French Polynesia

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Location

Moruroa Atoll · U-A · French Polynesia

Position

-21.810°, -138.813° · 7 ft elev.

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Remote airstrip serving France's nuclear test atoll in the Pacific.

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Moruroa Atoll, French Polynesia

Moruroa Airport is a restricted military and government airstrip located on Moruroa Atoll in French Polynesia, a territory of France in the South Pacific Ocean. The atoll was the primary site of French nuclear weapons testing conducted by the Direction des applications militaires between 1966 and 1996, and the airport was built to support those operations. Access to Moruroa Atoll and its airstrip is strictly controlled by French authorities. The facility is not open to commercial aviation or the general public, and serves primarily logistical and administrative functions related to ongoing monitoring of the former test site by French government agencies. The airport holds the IATA code UOA and ICAO code NTTX, though scheduled commercial service has never operated here. The runway accommodates the transport aircraft needed to supply and rotate personnel involved in environmental monitoring of the atoll.

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No commercial airlines operate to or from Moruroa Airport, as the facility is restricted to French government and military use.

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›Moruroa Atoll was the site of 181 French nuclear tests between 1966 and 1996.
›Access to the atoll and its airport is strictly controlled by the French government.
›The airport supports ongoing environmental and radiological monitoring missions.
›No commercial passenger services are offered at this facility.
›The atoll is approximately 1,250 kilometers southeast of Tahiti.

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