Kimberley Airport is an
airport
An airport is an aerodrome with extended facilities, mostly for commercial air transport. Airports usually consists of a landing area, which comprises an aerially accessible open space including at least one operationally active surface ...
serving
Kimberley,
the
capital city
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of the
province
A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or sovereign state, state. The term derives from the ancient Roman ''Roman province, provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire ...
of
Northern Cape
The Northern Cape is the largest and most sparsely populated province of South Africa. It was created in 1994 when the Cape Province was split up. Its capital is Kimberley. It includes the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park, part of the Kgalagadi T ...
in
South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countri ...
. The airport is approximately 10 km away from the centre of Kimberley.
[url=https://kimberleyairport.co.za, date= 24 October 2019]
Facilities
The airport is at an
elevation
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of above
mean sea level
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. It has two
asphalt
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paved
runway
According to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a runway is a "defined rectangular area on a land aerodrome prepared for the landing and takeoff of aircraft". Runways may be a man-made surface (often asphalt concrete, as ...
s: 02/20 measuring and 10/28 measuring .
Airlines and destinations
Traffic statistics
See also
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List of airports in South Africa
This is a list of airports in South Africa, grouped by type and sorted by location.
Most of the largest airports are owned by the Airports Company of South Africa these include all the international airports except for Lanseria International ...
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List of South African airports by passenger movements
The following is a list of South African airports by passenger movements.
Statistics
All information below is sourced from the annual statistics published by the Airports Company South Africa. Figures are between 1 April and 31 March the follo ...
References
External links
Kimberley Airport HomepageAerial Photograph on Google Maps*
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Airports in South Africa
Buildings and structures in Kimberley, Northern Cape
Transport in the Northern Cape
Airports of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan
World War II sites in South Africa