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Charts affected. Admiralty Chart No. 25-Backstairs Passage.

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2389---St. Vincent & Spencer Gulfs. 1014-Cape Jervis to Rivoli Bay. 2759b-Australia Southern Portion.

By Direction,

JOSHUA F. RAMSBOTHAM,

· Director of Lighthouses.

Department of Trade and Customs,

MELBOURNE, 5th August, 1916.

STEPHEN MILLS, Comptroller-General of Customs.

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA,

1916. No. 8.

The Astronomical positions are only approximate unless seconds are given. The bearings are given both True and Magnetic, and those relating to lights are from seaward. The visibility of lights is that in clear weather. Fog signals are sounded only in thick or foggy weather. The heights given are heights of focal plane above high water.

AUSTRALIA EAST COAST.

Inner Barrier Route-Home Group.

Clerke Island Light established; Amended height of focal plane.

WITH reference to Notice No. 7 of 1915, Mariners and others are hereby notified that the light on Clerke Island is now permanently established.

Position. Latitude 11° 58' S.; Longitude 143° 17′ E. Structure.Steel skeleton tower, painted white.

Character.-Single flashing White light, showing one flash every three seconds,

thus:

Flash,

1 sec.

eclipse, 27, secs.

Elevation. Fifty-six feet instead of 70 feet, as formerly stated.

Visibility. Thirteen miles, through an are of 255°, from 139° (S. 46° E. Mag.) through South, West and North to 34° (N. 29° E. Mag.), obscured elsewhere.

Remarks. The light is unwatched.

Publications affected.-Admiralty List of Lights and Time Signals, Part VI.,

Charts affected.-

1915, page 365.

Australia Directory, Vol. II., 1907, Page 434.

Sailing Directions and other information for the Ports

and Harbours of Queensland.

Admiralty Chart No. 2919.---Cape Grenville to Cape York.

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2920.---Cape Direction to Cape Grenville. 2354.-Australia, North and East Coast, Sheet XX. 3088.--Anchorages on the East Coast of Australia. 2764.-Coral Sea and Great Barrier Reefs, Sheet 2.

780.---Pacific Ocean South West Sheet.

By Direction,

JOSHUA F. RAMSBOTHAM,

Director of Lighthouses.

Department of Trade and Customs,

MELBOURNE, 3rd August, 1916.

STEPHEN MILLS, Comptroller-General of Customs.