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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 19тп MAY, 1880.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
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The following Notices to Mariners are published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 19th May, 1880.
FREDERICK STEWART,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
se of this Notice, as soon as it is received on board, is to be inserted in red ink on the Charts affected by it; and introduced into the margin, herwise in the page, of the Sailing Directions to which it relates. See Admiralty Instructions, Navigation and Pilotage, p.p. 312 and 313.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
(No. 21.)
CHINA SEA-SINGAPORE.
Alterations in Fort Canning Light.
The Government of the Straits Settlements has given Notice, that the following alterations have been made in the
and visibility of the light exhibited from Fort Canning, Singapore:-
It is visible through
Tight (fixed white) is shown from a new flagstaff situated 20 yards southward of the old staff.
of nearly 680, between the bearings N.N.W. W. and W. S.- aar wathward of Johore shoal.
-or from one mile eastward of Peak island to one
Flight is elevated 256 feet above the sea, and should be seen in clear weather from a distance of 20 miles.
(The bearings are Magnetic. Variation 1° Eusterly in 1880.)
By Command of their Lordships,
Hydrographic Office, Admiralty, London, 27th January, 1880.
FREDK. J. EVANS,
Hydrographer.
ta. Notive affects the following Admiralty Charts-Singapore strait, No. 2493: Banka strait to Singapore, No. 2757; Singapore road, No. 1995:
Aturalty List of Lights in South Africa, China, &c., 1880, No. 104; and China Sea Directory, vol. I., 1878, pages 94, 116 and 127.
fare of this Notice, as soon as it is received on board, is to be inserted in red ink on the Charts affected by it; and introduced into the margin er therwise in the page, of the Sailing Directions to which it relates. See Admiralty Instructions, Navigation and Pilotage, pp. 312 & 313.
NOTICE TO MARINERS. (No. 24.)
CHINA SEA. BANKA ISLAND-NORTH-EAST COAST.
Sunken Dangers.
Netherlands Government has published the following information, relative to reefs and certain isolated shoals ted to the north-east of Banka island; and in the northern approach to Gaspar strait, being the result of a survey my made in H.N.M. Surveying-vessel Hydrograaf:-
The following shoal spots hitherto marked on charts in the undermentioned positions, are stated not to exist:--
CATHERINE REEF,
COLUMBIA SHOAL,
SCHEWENINGEN SHOAL,.
PRATT ROCK,.
ATWICK ROCK,
.in lat. 2° 21′ S., long. 106° 46′ E.
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More accurate positions with particulars of the following reefs, previously charted, are given as under :-- 1. SITTARD (DUTCH OR VANSITTART) REEF in lat. 2° 11' 32" S., long, 100° 44′ 49′′ E., 3 cables in extent, with a
least depth of 1 fathoms over it, is steep-to, having 113 to 17 fathoms around.
A shoal in lat. 2° 25' S., long. 106° 30′ 46′′ E., 23 cables in extent and steep-to, has a least depth of 13 fathoms
with 93 to 132 fathoms around.
3. A shoal in lat. 2° 4′ 30′′ S., long. 106° 30′ 55′′ E., three-quarters of a cable in extent and steep-to, has a least
depth of 2 fathoms with 9 to 12 fathoms around.
4. A shal (rock) in lat. 9° 1′ 47′′ S., long. 106° 36′ 56" E., extending
direction and steep-to, has a least depth of 43 fathoms with 133 to 15 A test (Palmer reefs) in lat. 1° 57′ 54" S., long. 106° 21′ 59′′ E., 2
depth of 1 fathoms with 9 to 123 fathoms around.
23 cables in a north-east and south-west fathoms around.
cables in extent and steep-to, has a least
A red (Palmer reefs) in lat. 1° 58′ 10′′ S., long. 106° 22′ 42′′ E., 2 cables in extent and steep-to, has a least depth
of 13 fathoms with 93 to 124 fathoms around.
SWAN KEEF in lat. 1° 40′ 10′′ S., long. 106° 17′ 32" E., 2 cables in extent and steep-to, has a least depth of 12
fathoms with 13 to 143 fathoms around.
EARN SHOAL in lat. 1° 37′ 10′′ S., long. 106° 30′ 22′′ E., 2 cables in extent and steep-to, has a least depth of 13
Lathons with 16% to 17 fathoms around.
O PIGEON REE in lat. 1° 12′ 12 S., long. 106° 41′ 40′′ E., consists of two shoal patches half a cable apart ad each half a cable in extent; the least depths on them are respectively 1 and 3 fathoms, with 13 fathoms between aud 16 to 193 fathoms around.
LESTIAL REEFS consist of three shoal patches. One of them, in lat. 1° 12′ 20 S., long, 106° 46′ 40′′ E., half
cable in length W.N.W. and E.S.E., with a breadth of 33 yards, has a least depth of 1 fathoms.
sword, in lat. 1° 12′ 45′′ S., long, 106° 46′ 32′′ E., one cable in length W.N.W. and E.S.E., with a breadth of
yards, has a least depth of 2 fathoms,
Ford, in lat. 1° 12′ 19 S., long. 106° 46′ 20′′ E., three-quarters of a cable long north and south, and a quarter Pia cable broad, has a least depth of 2 fathoms.
Ben and around these reefs, which are steep-to, the depths are from 173 to 22 fathoms.
HAPKINS SHOAL in lat. 1° 8' 15" S., long. 100° 41′ 10′′ É., 14 cables in extent and steep-to, has a least depth of
fathons with 10 to 184 fathoms around.