Northern Peninsula Airport is an

airport An airport is an aerodrome with extended facilities, mostly for commercial Aviation, air transport. They usually consist of a landing area, which comprises an aerially accessible open space including at least one operationally active surf ...

serving

Bamaga Bamaga ( , ) is an Indigneous town and locality about from the northern tip of Cape York in the north of Queensland, Australia. It is within the Northern Peninsula Area Region. It is one of the northernmost settlements in continental Australi ...

, a town near the northern tip of the

Cape York Peninsula The Cape York Peninsula is a peninsula located in Far North Queensland, Australia. It is the largest wilderness in northern Australia.Mittermeier, R.E. et al. (2002). Wilderness: Earth's last wild places. Mexico City: Agrupación Sierra Madre, ...

and is located southeast of Injinoo in

Queensland Queensland ( , commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a States and territories of Australia, state in northeastern Australia, and is the second-largest and third-most populous state in Australia. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Austr ...

Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and list of islands of Australia, numerous smaller isl ...

. The airport is operated by the

Northern Peninsula Area Regional Council The Northern Peninsula Area Region is a local government area in Far North Queensland, Australia, covering areas on the northwestern coast of Cape York Peninsula. It was created in March 2008 out of three Aboriginal Shires and two autonomous Isl ...

. It was known as Bamaga Airport or Bamaga/Injinoo Airport and had the ICAO code YBAM. Data current as of October 2006.

Facilities

The airport resides at an

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of above

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. It has one

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designated 13/31 with an

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surface measuring .

History

Built in late 1942 and known as Jacky Jacky Field, the airfield was renamed Higgins Field in 1943 in honour of Flight Lieutenant Brian Hartley Higgins. Operated as a dispersal field for Horn Island.

Royal Australian Air Force The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) is the principal Air force, aerial warfare force of Australia, a part of the Australian Defence Force (ADF) along with the Royal Australian Navy and the Australian Army. Constitutionally the Governor-Gener ...

units based at Higgins Field during World War II included: * No. 1 Repair and Salvage Unit RAAF * No. 5 Repair and Salvage Unit RAAF *

No. 7 Squadron RAAF No. 7 Squadron was an Australian flying training squadron of World War I and medium bomber squadron of World War II. The squadron was formed in England in October 1917 as part of the Australian Flying Corps, and disbanded in early 1919. It was ...

* No. 23 Squadron RAAF * No. 33 Operational Base Unit RAAF * No. 34 Squadron RAAF *

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was at nearby Mutee Head * 105th Light Field Ambulance

Airlines and destinations

References

External links

History of Bamaga Airfield
at PacificWrecks.com * {{Airports in Queensland Airports in Queensland

Facilities

History

Airlines and destinations

See also

References

External links