Aranuka Airport guide

Aranuka Airport (ICAO: NGUK) serves Aranuka, a small atoll in the Gilbert Islands of Kiribati, just north of the equator. The airfield sits near the northern tip of Buariki, the atoll's main islet, about 1 km north of the centre of Buariki village. Its elevation is 1.8 m above sea level.

The airport has one runway, 902 m long. Air Kiribati is the only airline and flies to the atoll twice a week. The route connects Aranuka with Kuria Airport and Bonriki International Airport on Tarawa, and the aircraft continues to Tarawa about twenty minutes after landing at Kuria.

Aranuka had 1,057 residents at the 2010 census, spread across four villages, and the airport is the island's main link to South Tarawa and the rest of the country.