Cambridge Bay Airport — Cambridge Bay, Canada

Cambridge Bay Airport, coded YCB, serves the hamlet of Cambridge Bay on Victoria Island in Canada's Nunavut territory, well above the Arctic Circle. As one of the busiest airports in the Kitikmeot region, YCB acts as a crucial transportation and logistics hub, connecting isolated Arctic communities that have no road access to the southern supply chain. The airport supports scheduled passenger flights, freight delivery, and refueling for aircraft traversing the Northwest Passage corridor, and it gained added importance with the establishment of the Canadian High Arctic Research Station nearby. Extreme cold, permafrost runway conditions, and long winter darkness shape operations here. For Inuit residents, Cambridge Bay's airfield remains an indispensable link to the rest of Canada.