LIF

Lifou Airport

ICAO NWWL20.7746°S 167.2393°E28 m / 92 ftMedium airport
On the map

Lifou Airport (IATA: LIF, ICAO: NWWL) is a medium airport in Lifou, Province des îles Loyauté, New Caledonia. It has one runway, 1,100 m (3,609 ft) long, asphalt. In 2022 it handled 161 thousand passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
12/30135° / 315° · LIT
LENGTH1,100 m3,609 ftWIDTH30 m98 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2011–2022
135K
162K
163K
172K
166K
161K
154K
162K
191K
136K
119K
161K
111213141516171819202122

Routes

5 destinations · 1 country
Most destinationsAir Loyauté 4Air Calédonie 4

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from LIF. From the Wikipedia article “Ouanaham Airport” (revision of 21 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers161K (2022)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,635of 3,974 · #63 Oceania · #3 NCLongest runway1,100 m3,609 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=11,793of 29,823 · =952 Oceania · =4 NCElevation28 m92 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=37,151of 43,341 · =1,570 Oceania · #7 NCRunways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =526 Oceania · =1 NC
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

Radio frequencies

3 channels
AFISTONTOUTA INFO125.100
APPTONTOUTA APP119.700
TWRTWR118.500