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VMA131Marine

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8. There is still an active runway on Midway

Reply to Aristus (Reply #1)

Thu Nov 26, 2020, 12:10 AM

Nov 2020

and the island is not uninhabited;

“ The usual method of reaching Sand Island, Midway Atoll's only populated island, is on chartered aircraft landing at Sand Island's Henderson Field, which also functions as an emergency diversion point runway for transpacific flights.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midway_Atoll

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