Arandis Airport is an airport serving
Arandis, a town in the
Erongo Region
Erongo is one of the 14 regions of Namibia. The capital is Swakopmund. It is named after Mount Erongo, a well-known landmark in Namibia and in this area. Erongo contains the municipalities of Walvis Bay, Swakopmund, Henties Bay and Omaruru, as w ...
of
Namibia
Namibia (, ), officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa. Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Zambia and Angola to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and ea ...
. The airport is south of Arandis. The town and airport also provide service to the
Rössing Uranium Mine, one of the world's largest
open-pit
Open-pit mining, also known as open-cast or open-cut mining and in larger contexts mega-mining, is a surface mining technique of extracting rock or minerals from the earth from an open-air pit, sometimes known as a borrow.
This form of mining ...
uranium
Uranium is a chemical element with the symbol U and atomic number 92. It is a silvery-grey metal in the actinide series of the periodic table. A uranium atom has 92 protons and 92 electrons, of which 6 are valence electrons. Uranium is weak ...
mines.
The Arandis
non-directional beacon
A non-directional beacon (NDB) or non-directional radio beacon is a radio beacon which does not include directional information. Radio beacons are radio transmitters at a known location, used as an aviation or marine navigational aid. NDB are i ...
(Ident: AD) is located off the threshold of Runway 10.
See also
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List of airports in Namibia
This is a list of airports in Namibia, sorted by location.
List of airports
Airport names shown in bold indicate the airport has scheduled service on commercial airlines.
See also
* Transport in Namibia
* List of airports by ICAO code: F# ...
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Transport in Namibia
This article deals with the system of transport in Namibia, both public and private.
General History
The beginnings of organised travel and transport routes in the territory of South West Africa, today Namibia, have not yet been established. This ...
References
External links
OpenStreetMap - Arandis
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Airports in Namibia
Erongo Region
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