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Makemo Airport

airport in French Polynesia, France

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 authorityQ4263787 ↗
Source-derived summary

Makemo Airport (IATA: MKP, ICAO: NTGM) is an airport on Makemo in French Polynesia. The airport is 10 km (6.2 mi) WNW of the village of Pouheva.

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

Statistics

See also

List of airports in French Polynesia

References

External links

NTGM – MAKEMO. AIP from French Service d'information aéronautique, effective 3 September 2026.

Editorial summary

“Makemo Airport” enters the record as airport in French Polynesia, France. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Makemo, Airport and airport 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—2026—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Makemo, Airport and airport.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Makemo Airport” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Makemo, Airport and airport 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 Q4263787. Authority coordinates are -16.588, -143.655. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2026.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. 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 “Makemo Airport”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Makemo Airport primary sources, Makemo Airport archive and Makemo 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 “Makemo Airport”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Makemo 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.