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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 14TH APRIL, 1883.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 138. HYDROGRAPHIC NOTICES.
The following Hydrographic Notices are published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 14th April, 1883.
Government of China.
AMOY DISTRICT:
LOCAL NOTICE TO MARINERS, No. 14.
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W. H. MARSH,
Colonial Secretary.
First exhibition of South Cape of Formosa Light, and establishment of fog signals.
Notice is hereby given that the Light on the South Cape of Formosa was exhibited for the first time at sunset on the 1st instant.
The illuminating apparatus is fixed Dioptrie of the First order, shewing a white light from S. 54° 55′ W. round by West and North to S. 85° E., and a red light from S. 85° E. to S. 28° E.
Between the bearings S. 54° 55′ W. and S. 86° 28′ W. the visibility of the Light, awing to the height of the land to With the Light bearing $. 54° 55′ the eastward of the lighthouse, will depend upon the distance of the observer from it.
W. a vessel will need to be between 15 and 20 miles distant in order to see it, but as it is brought to bear mere to the westward it illuminates more of the sea until on the bearing S. 86° 28′ W. it is visible at all distances between the extreme limit of its range and the shore.
To the westward and north-westward of the south-west Point of Formosa the Light is entirely obscured by between the bearings S. 80° 13′ E. and S. 28° E.
The bearings are magnetic and taken from seaward.
land,
The Light is elevated 180 feet above the level of the sea and in clear weather it should be visible at a distance of 20 nautical miles.
The Tower is round, of iron, 50 feet high, with a total height from its base to the lantern vane of 713 feet, and it is situated about 550 yards due North from high water mark at the extreme South part of the Cape.
The tower, dwellings and boundary wall are painted white.
Approximate position :-Latitude..........................
Longitude
FOG GUN SIGNAL.
........21° 55′ 00′′ N. .120° 50′ 38° E.
The keepers at this Lighthouse on hearing a bell, fog-horn, steam whistle, or any other sound during foggy or thick weather, indicating the proximity of a vessel, will fire two guns with an interval of three minutes between them, and, if the vessel's fog signal is still heard, will repeat the firing after an interval of eight minutes.
The above occurrence affects the Takow Commissioner's District, and will in due course form the subject of a Takow Local Notice.
For Harbour Master,
Approved:
J. McLEAVY BROWN,
Commissioner of Customs.
CUSTOM HOUSE, AMOY, 5th April, 1883.
W. FENNING, Assistant Tidesurveyor.
"Audacious," at Hongkong,
5th April, 1883.
HYDROGRAPHICAL MEMO., No. 31.
The following information has been received from H.M.S. "Magpie":
Fleurs Castle Rock.-Lat. 31° 10′ 40" N., Long. 122° 21′ 30′′ E.-H.M.S. "Magpie" made a minute search for this rock between the bearings of W. b S. 1 S., and N. W. from the Amherst Rocks, and failed to get less than 5 fathoms. The Yangtsze pilots are of opinion that it does not exist.
Tong ting Island. Lat. 29° 51′ 40′′ N., Long. 122° 35′ 30′′ E.—The suspected reef, 1 mile S.E. of this island, has been proved not to exist. The island is 300 ft. high. This cancels Hydrographical Memo., No. 29, of 1883.
Video Island is 996 ft. high.
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Sea Swallow Rock, Changchi Island. (Variation 1o W.)-The correct position of this danger is 12 cables S.E. S. of the islet, and is a pinnacle of 7 ft. at low water springs. Between the islet and the South point of Changchi, is a ridge of 6 fathoms, on which is a pinnacle of 44 fathoms.
Admiralty Charts, Nos. 1199, 1602, and 2400 (4 only,) also China Sea Directory, vol. III, 1874, pages 308, 323, and Hydrographic Notices, Nos. 10, of 1881, and 36 of 1882, are affected hereby.
To the Commodore and the respective Captains, Commanders
and Officers Commanding Her Majesty's Ships and Vessels employed on the China Station.
GEORGE O. WILLES, Vice-Admiral, Commander-in-Chief.