- IATA
- ZQN
- the code on your bag tag
- ICAO
- NZQN
- used by air traffic control
- Opened
- 1935
- per Wikidata
- Passengers
- 1.2M
- in 2021
History & name
Queenstown Airport opened in 1935 and takes its name from Queenstown, New Zealand. It has two runways, the longer 1,891 m, sits at 1,171 feet and handled 1.2 million passengers in 2021.
Read more: Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata ↗
At a glance
- Full name
- Queenstown Airport
- Serves
- Queenstown, New Zealand
- Opened
- 1935
- Passengers
- 1.2 million in 2021
- Runways
- 2 runways, longest 1,891 m
- Elevation
- 1,171 ft (357 m)
- Website
- queenstownairport.co.nz ↗
Where it sits
45.0°S, 168.7°E puts ZQN in the southern hemisphere, 5,006 km from the equator and 5,002 km from the South pole.
Of the 661 airports on this site it is the 657th most northerly, which makes it the 5th most southerly.
Straight through the middle
Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 45.0°N, 11.3°W. The nearest airport on this site to that point is Francisco de Sá Carneiro (OPO) in Portugal, still 468 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.
What’s near it
The closest other airport on this site is Dunedin (DUD), 152 km away in a straight line. Nothing else on this site is within 100 km.
Distances from ZQN
Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air.
| To | Distance | Estimated | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auckland | AKL | 1,024 km | 1h 46m |
Where these facts come from
The profile is looked up, not written from memory: type, runways, elevation and the official website from OurAirports (public domain); opening year, namesake, operator and passenger count from Wikidata (CC0); the city centre from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Where a source has nothing, the line is left out. Distances, neighbours and the antipode are computed from the coordinates.
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