Canton Island Airport (IATA: CIS, ICAO: PCIS) is an airport located on Kanton Island, in the Phoenix Islands, in the Republic of Kiribati. It has a single runway 1,900 m in length. Though it was once a major stop on commercial trans-Pacific airline routes, it currently has no commercial airline service. The airport was closed in 1975, though it remains available as an emergency landing field.
Kanton Island (also known as Canton Island or Abariringa Island), alternatively known as “Mary Island”, “Mary Balcout’s Island” or “Swallow Island”, is the largest, northernmost, and as of 2007, the sole inhabited island of the Phoenix Islands, in the Republic of Kiribati. It is an atoll located in the South Pacific Ocean roughly halfway between Hawaii and Fiji -wikipedia
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