Joensuu Airport
Joensuu Airport (IATA: JOE, ICAO: EFJO) is an airport in Liperi, Finland, about 11 kilometres (7 mi) northwest of Joensuu city centre.
History
Airport was established 1937.
Airlines and destinations
Statistics
Weather station
The Finnish Meteorological Institute has a weather station at the airport. The highest recorded natural temperature in Finland, 37.2 °C (99.0 °F), was measured at the airport on July 29, 2010.
See also
References
External links
Media related to Joensuu Airport at Wikimedia Commons
Joensuu
Joensuu (lit. "mouth of the river"; Russian: Йоэнсуу) is a city and municipality in North Karelia in the province of Eastern Finland. It was founded in 1848. The population of Joensuu is 74,941 (June 30, 2015), although the economic region of Joensuu has a population of 115,000.
Joensuu is a lively student city with over 15,000 students enrolled at the University of Eastern Finland and a further 4,000 at the North Karelia University of Applied Sciences.
The largest employers are the municipal City of Joensuu, North Karelian Hospital District Federation of Municipalities, Abloy and Punamusta.
The European Forest Institute, the University and many other institutes and export enterprises such as Abloy and John Deere Forestry give Joensuu an international flavour. Joensuu is as typical of cities in Eastern Finland monolingually Finnish.
History
The city of Joensuu, which was founded by the Czar Nicholas I of Russia in 1848, is the regional centre and the capital of North Karelia. During the 19th century Joensuu was a city of manufacture and commerce. When in 1860 the city received dispensation rights to initiate commerce, former restrictions against industry were removed and the local sawmills began to prosper and expand. Water traffic was improved by the building of the Saimaa Canal. Consequently, a lively commerce between the regions of North Karelia, St. Petersburg and Central Europe was enabled. At the end of the 19th century Joensuu was one of the largest harbour cities in Finland.
Joensuu (surname)
Joensuu is a Finnish surname. Notable people with the surname include:
1524 Joensuu
1524 Joensuu, provisional designation 1939 SB, is a carbonaceous asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, about 43 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered by Finnish astronomer Yrjö Väisälä at the Turku Observatory in Southwest Finland, on 18 September 1939.
The dark C-type asteroid orbits the Sun at a distance of 2.7–3.5 AU once every 5 years and 6 months (2,003 days). Its orbit shows an eccentricity of 0.12 and is tilted by 13 degrees to the plane of the ecliptic. It has a rotation period of 9.3 hours and an albedo in the range of 0.03 to 0.06, according to the surveys carried out by IRAS, Akari, WISE and NEOWISE.
The minor planet was named for the Finnish town Joensuu, where the discoverer received his early schooling. It is located in North Karelia, near the Russian border.
