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Coco Point Lodge Airstrip

airport in Antigua and Barbuda

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ12692272 ↗
Source-derived summary

Coco Point Lodge Airstrip (ICAO: TAPT) was a private use airport located near Coco Point, Barbuda, Antigua and Barbuda.

Editorial summary

“Coco Point Lodge Airstrip” enters the record as airport in Antigua and Barbuda. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Coco, Point and Lodge can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current 19-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Coco, Point and Lodge.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Coco Point Lodge Airstrip” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Coco, Point and Lodge provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q12692272. Authority coordinates are 17.556, -61.764. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. 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 “Coco Point Lodge Airstrip”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Coco Point Lodge Airstrip primary sources, Coco Point Lodge Airstrip archive and Coco 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 “Coco Point Lodge Airstrip”?
  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 “Coco Point Lodge Airstrip” 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.