Nerlerit Inaat Airport

Nerlerit Inaat Airport Mittarfik Nerlerit Inaat Constable Pynt Lufthavn Nerlerit Inaat Lufthavn
Nerlerit Inaat from Harris Fjeld
IATA: CNP ICAO: BGCO
Summary
Operator	Greenland Airport Authority (Mittarfeqarfiit)
Serves	Ittoqqortoormiit
Elevation AMSL	45 ft / 14 m
Coordinates	70°44′35″N 022°39′02″W / 70.74306°N 22.65056°W / 70.74306; -22.65056Coordinates: 70°44′35″N 022°39′02″W / 70.74306°N 22.65056°W / 70.74306; -22.65056
Website	Nerlerit Inaat lufthavn
Map
BGCO Location in Greenland
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 18/36 1,000 3,281 Gravel
Statistics (2012)
Passengers 3,547
Source: Danish AIS

Nerlerit Inaat Airport (Greenlandic: Mittarfik Nerlerit Inaat, Danish: Constable Pynt Lufthavn) (IATA: CNP, ICAO: BGCO) is an airport in the Sermersooq municipality in eastern Greenland. It is located on Jameson Land and serves the town of Ittoqqortoormiit, approximately 40 km (25 mi) to the south-east. The airport can serve STOL aircraft. A AS 350 helicopter of Air Greenland is permanently housed at the airport, linking it with Ittoqqortoormiit Heliport. The helicopter also provides search and rescue capabilities within the surrounding area, and can be chartered for transport.

The airport was built in 1985 by the US oil company ARCO in connection with oil exploration in Jameson Land. It was sold to Greenland in 1990.

The airport may be relocated to a new site on Liverpool Land closer to Ittoqqortoormiit, between the settlement and Uunarteq cape (Danish: Kap Tobin) to the south, thus eliminating the need for helicopter transfers.

The airport has around 15 employees, who have their home within the airport area. No other settlement is reachable by road, making the airport possibly the one with smallest population reachable by road in the world. There is a road to a seaport around 2 km south of the terminal building, and some other roads in the area. Transportation to the main settlement in the area (Ittoqqortoormiit) is by helicopter or (in the summer) by boat.