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Annobón Airport

Airport in Equatorial Guinea

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
Places and architectureInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ5659005 ↗
Source-derived summary

Annobón Airport (IATA: NBN, ICAO: FGAN) is an airport in San Antonio de Palé, Annobón, Equatorial Guinea.

Overview

The airport is west of San Antonio de Palé on the southern island of Annobón. It was inaugurated October 15, 2010, in the presence of Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, the President of Equatorial Guinea. CEIBA Intercontinental provides weekly service to Malabo.

Editorial summary

“Annobón Airport” enters the record as airport in Equatorial Guinea. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Annobón, Airport and Equatorial can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2010—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2013-10-15. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Annobón, Airport and Equatorial.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Annobón Airport” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Annobón, Airport and Equatorial provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5659005. Authority coordinates are -1.410, 5.622. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2010.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Annobón Airport”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Annobón Airport primary sources, Annobón Airport archive and Annobón research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Annobón Airport”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Annobón Airport” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.