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Field Listing - Transportation - note |
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Transportation - note
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Arctic Ocean
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sparse network of air, ocean, river, and land routes; the Northwest Passage (North America) and Northern Sea Route (Eurasia) are important seasonal waterways
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Atlantic Ocean
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Kiel Canal and Saint Lawrence Seaway are two important waterways; significant domestic commercial and recreational use of Intracoastal Waterway on central and south Atlantic seaboard and Gulf of Mexico coast of US
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French Southern and Antarctic Lands
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aids to navigation - lighthouses: Europa Island 18m; Juan de Nova Island (W side) 37m; Tromelin Island (NW point) 11m (all in the Iles Eparses district)
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Georgia
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large parts of transportation network are in poor condition because of lack of maintenance and repair
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Pacific Ocean
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Inside Passage offers protected waters from southeast Alaska to Puget Sound (Washington state)
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Saint Barthelemy
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nearest airport for international flights is Princess Juliana International Airport (SXM) located in Sint Maarten (Netherlands Antilles)
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Saint Helena
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there is no air connection to Saint Helena or Tristan da Cunha; an international airport for Saint Helena is in development for 2010
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Saint Martin
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nearest airport for international flights is Princess Juliana International Airport (SXM) located in Sint Maarten
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Southern Ocean
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Drake Passage offers alternative to transit through the Panama Canal
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Wake Island
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there are no commercial or civilian flights to and from Wake Island, except in direct support of island missions; emergency landing is available
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This page was last updated on 4 September 2008
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