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World War II Airstrip Batchelor - NT

World War II Airstrip Batchelor

Airstrip

Position

DEG: -13.05758 131.029419

DMS: 13º 03' 27.29" S 131º 01' 45.91" E

UTM: 52 L 8555616mN 720064mE

Altitude: 109.22m

Place Type

Infrastructure - Airstrip

Location

69.64kms South of Darwin - Driving 98.8 km (1 hour 16 mins)

Address & Contact

Batchelor NT 0822

Phone: N/A

Email: N/A

Web: N/A

Information

Orientation 311°. Batchelor East/West strip is still there. The runways are about the same as they were in 1945, but the taxi ways have gone. The town is built on some of the taxiways. You can see their shape from from the air.

PlaceID	80937

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Weather

Closest Weather Station

Batchelor at 02/03:30pm CST

Distance from World War II Airstrip Batchelor 0.57km NW

Temperature	Feels Like	Rel. Humidity	Dew Point	Pressure	Rainfall	Wind Direction	Wind Speed	Gusts
29.5°C	24.6°C	20%	4.2°C	1012.6hPa	0.0mm	SE	19km/hr 10knots	30km/hr 16knots

Closest Climatic Station

Batchelor Aero

Distance from World War II Airstrip Batchelor 0.57km NW

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Mean Max. °C	32.7	32.2	32.8	33.7	32.7	31.2	31.8	33.3	36.0	36.8	35.3	33.8
Mean Min. °C	24.0	23.8	23.4	21.6	18.8	16.5	16.3	17.0	20.6	23.0	23.9	24.1
Mean Rain mm	306.7	360.7	258.9	101.8	24.6	0.5	0.2	2.8	6.6	68.5	133.9	268.0