GTE

Groote Eylandt Airport

ICAO YGTE13.9724°S 136.4586°E16 m / 53 ftMedium airport
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Groote Eylandt Airport (IATA: GTE, ICAO: YGTE) is a medium airport in Groote Eylandt, Northern Territory, Australia. It has one runway, 1,901 m (6,237 ft) long, asphalt. In 2022 it handled 47 thousand passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N
10/28100° / 280° · LIT
LENGTH1,901 m6,237 ftWIDTH30 m98 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2011–2022
34K
36K
33K
25K
23K
22K
23K
24K
26K
15K
40K
47K
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Routes

3 destinations · 1 country
Most destinationsAirnorth 2Alliance Airlines 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from GTE. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “Groote Eylandt Airport” (revision of 17 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers47K (2022)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#2,115of 3,974 · #104 Oceania · #64 AULongest runway1,901 m6,237 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft#4,280of 29,823 · #151 Oceania · #96 AUElevation16 m53 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=38,991of 43,341 · =1,747 Oceania · =1,067 AURunways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =526 Oceania · =468 AU
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

2 channels
CTAFCTAF126.000
FSSBRISBANE CNTR122.200