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Whale Cove Airport

airport in Nunavut, Canada
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Whale Cove Airport

Summary

Whale Cove Airport is an airport[1]. It ranks in the top 3% of airport entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Whale Cove Airport is located in Whale Cove[3].
  • Whale Cove Airport is located in Nunavut[4].
  • Whale Cove Airport is in the country of Canada[5].
  • Whale Cove Airport's instance of is recorded as airport[6].
  • Whale Cove Airport's instance of is recorded as commercial traffic aerodrome[7].
  • Whale Cove is named after Whale Cove Airport[8].
  • Whale Cove Airport's IATA airport code is recorded as YXN[9].
  • Whale Cove Airport's ICAO airport code is recorded as CYXN[10].
  • Whale Cove Airport's located in time zone is recorded as America/Winnipeg[11].
  • Whale Cove Airport's runway is recorded as 15/33[12].
  • Whale Cove Airport's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 62.24, 'lon': -92.598055555556}[13].
  • Whale Cove Airport's place served by transport hub is recorded as Whale Cove[14].
  • Whale Cove Airport sits at an elevation of {'unit': 'Q3710', 'amount': '+40'}[15].
  • Whale Cove Airport's patronage is recorded as {'amount': '+6178'}[16].
  • Whale Cove Airport's state of use is recorded as in use[17].

Body

Geography

Whale Cove Airport is in the country of Canada[5]. Located in include Whale Cove[3], a territorial hamlet of Canada[18], in Canada[19] and Nunavut[4], a territory of Canada[20], in Canada[21], founded in 1999[22].

Physical Characteristics

Whale Cove Airport sits at an elevation of {'unit': 'Q3710', 'amount': '+40'}[15].

Designation and Status

Recorded instance of include airport[6] and commercial traffic aerodrome[7].

History and Context

Whale Cove is named after Whale Cove Airport[8].

Why It Matters

Whale Cove Airport ranks in the top 3% of airport entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 9 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] It is known by 7 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

Related Entities

Canada

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [4] ↑ . open.canada.ca. open.canada.ca. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . open.canada.ca. open.canada.ca. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [18] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [19] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [20] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [21] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [22] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 6w ago · Ikan · 2026-05-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Whale Cove, Nunavut
    State of use → in use
    Instance of → —
    Place served by transport hub → Whale Cove
    + 13 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P4839]]: Entity["Airport", "WhaleCoveAirport::z7vrb"], [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/257634|batch #257634]]"
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