Or perhaps the red we see is not the native earth colour. Maybe Coulson or Conair have been practising dropping retardant...

Just possibly Inverleigh in Queensland?

Dora has the right country but not Queensland. Go west.

An old WW2 airfield.

Bathurst Island? There's a lot of god awful strips up there around Darwin.......... but Bathurst looks possible....

Not on an island.

You're homing in nicely with Darwin.

Lets try Belyuen west of Darwin on the Cox Peninsula

big country up there but it has to be ona track or road................

You need to go south of Darwin. It is marked as an airfield on Google Earth.

Gould??/ Some of the GE imagery there is original 1984...............

And you've cracked it. :ok:

Drove around the Darwin area a few years back - what always amazes me is how many decent strips there are in the Outback.....................

try this................

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....b33d5806c1.jpg

The airfield is a minor International Airport, located by the sea and outside the tropics............................

Have you taken us back to Oz ?

No - it's a lot smaller place than Australia.......... they speak two languages there (plus the usual tourist English)

I'm out until 17:00 Zulu today

Is one of those languages Spanish or French ?

Si................... Spanish for sure - plus another language (not French)

Another picture

https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....09aab25a08.jpg

Argentina...…?

Quite a long way from Argentina

So:

outside the tropics
coastal minor international
Spanish speaking

Map of Spanish speaking countries doesn't tally. :uhoh:

Unless north-west Africa such as Morocco,

Morocco speaks Arabic and French

Try harder!!!! Or get a better map..................

I'm going out for a while................