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Wakunai Airport

Wakunai, Papua New Guinea

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Location

Wakunai · NSB · Papua New Guinea

Position

-5.860°, 155.222° · 20 ft elev.

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Remote airstrip serving the Wakunai district of Bougainville.

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Wakunai, Papua New Guinea

Wakunai Airport is a small domestic airstrip located in Wakunai, a district on the central east coast of Bougainville Island in Papua New Guinea. It serves as a vital link for local communities who have limited road access to larger population centers. The airport operates with basic infrastructure typical of rural Papua New Guinea airstrips, primarily handling light aircraft and small turboprop services. It plays an important role in connecting the Wakunai area to the rest of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville and mainland PNG.

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The airport has minimal terminal facilities consistent with a small rural airstrip serving a remote community.

Getting to & from

Ground transport from the airstrip to the Wakunai community and surrounding villages is primarily by road or track, with limited public transport options available.

Airlines here

Air Niugini and its subsidiary Link PNG have historically provided services to small domestic airstrips in the Bougainville region, though scheduled service details for Wakunai are limited.

Notable facts

›Located on the central east coast of Bougainville Island.
›Bougainville is the Autonomous Region of Papua New Guinea.
›The airstrip serves communities with limited overland transport infrastructure.
›The region experienced significant conflict during the Bougainville Crisis of the late 1980s–1990s.
›Small aircraft and light turboprops are the primary aircraft type servicing the airstrip.

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Wakunai Airport is an airfield serving Wakunai and Inus, on the Bougainville Island, in Papua New Guinea.

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Wakunai Airport

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Wakunai Airport is an airfield serving Wakunai and Inus, on the Bougainville Island, in Papua New Guinea.

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