Wittenoom Airport
Western Australia, Australia
WIT is the IATA airport code for Wittenoom Airport, located in Australia. Its ICAO code is YWIT. The airport is classified as a Small Airport. It operates in the Australia/Perth timezone at an elevation of 444 ft (135 m) above sea level.
About Wittenoom Airport
Wikipedia ↗Wittenoom is a former mining town and a declared contaminated site, 1,420 kilometres (880 mi) north-north-east of Perth, in the Hamersley Range in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The declared contaminated site comprises 46,840 hectares, making it the largest contaminated site in the southern hemisphere, an area nearly 1⁄5 the size of the Chernobyl exclusion zone area. The Government of Western Australia "strongly advises against all travel through Wittenoom and the surrounding areas".
Location
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- IATA Code
- WIT
- ICAO Code
- YWIT
- Type
- Small Airport
- Country
- Australia
- Region
- Western Australia
- Timezone
- Australia/Perth
- Local Time
- —
- Elevation
- 444 ft (135 m)
- Coordinates
- 22.2250°S, 118.3537°E
External Links
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