Nanisivik Airport

Nanisivik Airport
Nanisivik Airport terminal, June 2006
Summary
Airport typePublic
OperatorGovernment of Nunavut
ServesArctic Bay, Nunavut
LocationNanisivik
Time zoneEST (UTC−05:00)
 • Summer (DST)EDT (UTC−04:00)
Elevation AMSL2,106 ft / 642 m
Coordinates72°58′56″N 084°36′49″W / 72.98222°N 84.61361°W / 72.98222; -84.61361
Map
CYSR is located in Nunavut
CYSR
CYSR
Location in Nunavut
CYSR is located in Canada
CYSR
CYSR
CYSR (Canada)
Map
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
11/29 6,400 1,951 Gravel
Statistics (2010)
Aircraft movements464
Nanisivik terminal building

Nanisivik Airport, formerly (IATA: YSR, ICAO: CYSR), was located 8 nautical miles (15 km; 9.2 mi) south of Nanisivik,[3] Nunavut, Canada, and was operated by the Government of Nunavut. Although Nanisivik Mine[4] closed in September 2002, the airport was in operation until 2011 and served the community of Arctic Bay.[5] This was due to the small size of Arctic Bay Airport.[6] However, on January 13, 2011, First Air transferred all scheduled air services to Arctic Bay's newly-expanded airport.[7]

The airport was about 19 km (12 mi) directly southeast of Arctic Bay, but the road between them is 32 km (20 mi) and a one way taxi fare was $40.00.[7][8]

  1. ^ Canada Flight Supplement. Effective 0901Z 16 July 2020 to 0901Z 10 September 2020.
  2. ^ "Total aircraft movements by class of operation". Archived from the original on 2012-08-26. Retrieved 2011-05-27.
  3. ^ Nanisivik map 73°02′05″N 084°32′13″W / 73.03472°N 84.53694°W / 73.03472; -84.53694 (Nanisivik)
  4. ^ Nanisivik Mine 73°02′40″N 084°32′14″W / 73.04444°N 84.53722°W / 73.04444; -84.53722 (Nanisivik Mine)
  5. ^ Arctic Bay map 73°02′11″N 085°09′09″W / 73.03639°N 85.15250°W / 73.03639; -85.15250 (Arctic Bay)
  6. ^ Arctic Bay Airport 73°00′19″N 085°01′59″W / 73.00528°N 85.03306°W / 73.00528; -85.03306 (Arctic Bay Airport)
  7. ^ a b Arctic Bay airport opens[permanent dead link]
  8. ^ Arctic Bay and Nanisivik Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine