Northern Peninsula Airport (formerly Bamaga Airport)
IATA: ABM ICAO: YNPE
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	Northern Peninsula Area Regional Council
Location	Bamaga, Queensland, Australia
Elevation AMSL	34 ft / 10 m
Coordinates	10°57′03″S 142°27′34″E / 10.95083°S 142.45944°E / -10.95083; 142.45944
Map
YNPE Location in Queensland
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 13/31 1,834 6,017 Asphalt
Sources: Australian AIP and aerodrome chart[1]

Northern Peninsula Airport (IATA: ABM, ICAO: YNPE) is an airport serving Bamaga, a town near the northern tip of the Cape York Peninsula and is located 5 nautical miles (9.3 km; 5.8 mi) southeast of Injinoo in Queensland, Australia. The airport is operated by the Northern Peninsula Area Regional Council.^[1] It was known as Bamaga Airport or Bamaga/Injinoo Airport and had the ICAO code YBAM.^[2]

Facilities

The airport resides at an elevation of 34 ft (10 m) above sea level. It has one runway designated 13/31 with an asphalt surface measuring 1,834 m × 30 m (6,017 ft × 98 ft).^[1]

History

Built in late 1942 and known as Jacky Jacky Field, the airfield was renamed Higgins Field in 1943 in honour of Flight Lieutenant Brian Hartley Higgins. Operated as a dispersal field for Horn Island.

Royal Australian Air Force units based at Higgins Field during World War II included:^[3]

• No. 1 Repair and Salvage Unit RAAF^[4]
• No. 5 Repair and Salvage Unit RAAF
• No. 7 Squadron RAAF
• No. 23 Squadron RAAF
• No. 33 Operational Base Unit RAAF
• No. 34 Squadron RAAF
• No. 52 Radar Station RAAF was at nearby Mutee Head
• 105th Light Field Ambulance

Airlines and destinations