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Whale Cove Airport

ICAO CYXN62.2400°N 92.5981°W12 m / 40 ftSmall airport
On the map

Whale Cove Airport (IATA: YXN, ICAO: CYXN) is a small airport in Whale Cove, Nunavut, Canada. It has one runway, 1,219 m (4,000 ft) long. In 2011 it handled 6 thousand passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
15T/33T
LENGTH1,219 m4,000 ftWIDTH—SURFACE—

Routes

1 destinations · 1 country
25 km50 km10 mi20 mi30 mi40 miYRT · Rankin Inlet Airport · 68 km / 42 miYRTYXN

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from YXN. From the Wikipedia article “Whale Cove Airport” (revision of 7 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers6K (2011)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M=2,871of 3,974 · =735 North America · #84 CALongest runway1,219 m4,000 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=9,642of 29,823 · =3,827 North America · =325 CAElevation12 m40 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=39,743of 43,341 · =18,004 North America · =1,370 CARunways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =2,582 North America · =233 CA
Scale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record