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NORTH WEST COAST OF AUSTRALIA.
Cape Baskerville and Locality. Lat. 17.10 S. Long, 122.10 E. Charts 475, 1047, 1048, 1052, 2759A.
All bearings Magnetic, Variation 2° E.
THE following Hydrographical Notice has been issued by Captain PASCOE, R.X.. H.M.S. Fantome, 1910 Survey.
Panton Shoals.-A rock which dries 6 feet with the Western King Peak bearing N. 63° E. distant 10:85 miles.
A rock, awash at low water, exists N. 11 E. 5 cables and a rock with 3 feet on it at low water S. 11° W. 74 cables from the drying rock.
From N. 32° W. one mile from the rock, the three fathom line runs S. 3° W. for 3 iniles and to the N.N.E. for over 7 miles, passing outside the Tangiers.
Offlier-A rock, awash at low water, lies with the Western King Peak bearing N. 70° E. distant 11.9 miles.
Shoal water extends from this rock N. 65° W. 5 cables and S. 85° W. 3 cables where 3 fathoms are found.
A spit which dries for 24 miles from the shore runs out 34 miles S. 77° W. from Cape Baskerville. The extremity of the one fathom line lies with King Peak bearing N. 69° E. distant 10.3 miles.
Tangiers Shoals. —A rock awash at low water lies with King Peak bearing N. 88° E. distant 8.4 miles.
From this spot shoal water extends N. 241⁄2 E. 3.3 miles to the three fathom contour, and rocks in less than 6 feet N. 134° E. 54 cables, N. 20₫ E. 14 cables, and N. 22° E. 214 cables. A 2 fathom patch lies N. 29° W. 4 cables from the rock awash.
Baskerville Shoal.-Least water 1 fathoms-coral and sand-lies with the Western King Peak bearing S. 894° E. distant 12.4 miles.
From this spot the shoal extends, within the three fathom line :
N. 88 W. 8 cables.
S. 88° E. 15 cables.
N. 39 E. 5 cables. S. 39 E. 1 cable.
Surprise Shoal.-Least water 14 fathoms-coral and sand-lies with the Western King Peak bearing S. 63° E. 13:3 miles.
From this spot within the 3 fathom contour, the shoal runs :-
N. 79° E. 9 cables.
S. 79° W. 9 cables.
X. 25 cables. S. half a cable.
Lacepede Islands.-East Island, 6 feet high, lies 143 miles N. 45° W. from King Peak and is about a cable in diameter.
From East Island the West extreme of West Island bears N. 63° W. distant 63 miles. West Island, 2 miles long, and from one to 3 cables broad, lies in a W. N. direction the East extreme bearing N. 864° E. from the West extreme.
Middle Island, the adjacent island, separated from West Island by a channel three quarters of a cable broad, is one mile long in a S. 72° E. direction and 24 cables broad at its widest part.
A small island, 13 feet high, lies N. 55° W. 21 miles from East Island. This island is 4 cables in a N.E. and S.W. direction and 2 cables N.W. and S.E.
C. J. IRVINE,
Department of Harbour and Light,
FREMANTLE, 18th July, 1910.
Chief Harbour Master.