Abemama Atoll Airport

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The airfield Abemama, officially engl. Abemama Atoll Airport, often only Abemama Airport ( IATA: ABF, ICAO: NGAB ), is a national Kiribati airport and is located at the northern tip of belonging to the central Gilbert Islands atoll Abemama, around 200 meters from the Location Tabiang away. Abemama is located about 150 km southeast of the capital, Tarawa Atoll, just above the equator.

Abemama is four times weekly flights by Air Kiribati from the hub Bonriki International Airport in South Tarawa, from January 2009, also from the private airline Coral Sun Airways.

Objectives and airlines

• Air Kiribati (Tarawa )
• Coral Sun Airways ( Maiana, Tarawa )

History

The airfield was originally built in late 1943 after the liberation from the Japanese occupation of the United States Navy SeaBees for the U.S. Air Force. He was an important part in the Pacific war that occurred in the 1944 attacks on the Marshall Islands, Kwajalein and Eniwetok. After the Second World War, he went into the hands of the British colonial administration of the Gilbert and Elliceinseln, after independence in 1979 in the hands of the state of Kiribati and gained increasing importance as a tourist destination.

Notes

Abaiang | Abemama | Aranuka | Arorae | Beru | Bonriki | Butaritari | Kuria | Kiritimati | Maiana | Makin | Marakei | Nikunau | Nonouti | Onotoa | Tabiteuea North | South Tabiteuea | Tamana

• Airport in Kiribati
• Airport in Australia and Oceania
• Gilbert Islands