THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 7TH AUGUST, 1880.
THE FOLLOWING POSITIONS ARE TABULATED :--
Place.
Longitude.
Latitude.
Pochin Pagoda (460 feet),
Hainan Bluff (173 feet), Hainan Pt. Extremic,.
Mofon Hill (655 feet),
19°
Mount Toncon (1,220 feet),
19°
20° 05′ 35′′ N. 20° 09′ 20′′ N, 20° OV 55" N. 58′ 00′′ N. 40' 30" N.
North Taya Id. (648 feet),
South Taya Id. (276 feet), Eastern Edge, North Bk., Shemoen Pagoda,
19° 59′ 05′′ N. 19° 53′ 15′′ N. 20° 22 12" N. 20° 19′ 40′′ N,
110° 35′ 48′′ E. 110° 40′ 30′′ E. 110° 41′ 15′′ E. 110° 52′ 05′′ E. 111° 01′ 00′′ E. 111° 16′ 05′′ E. 111° 12′ 35′′ E. E. 110° 58′ 15′′ 110° 09′ 40′′ E.
Approved,
R. H. NAPIER,
595
EDWARD P. CHAPMAN,
Lieutenant.
Captain in charge of Survey.
The substance 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, or otherwise 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. 49.)
CHINA-EAST COAST.
(1) Amoy Outer Harbour-Light-vessel Marking Wreck.
The Chinese Government has given Notice, dated 6th January 1880, that a light is exhibited from the mast head of
a junk moored over the wreck of the Lunan, sunk in Amoy outer harbour :-
The light is a fixed white light, and should be visible in clear weather from a distance of about 3 miles. The wreck lies in 7 fathoms at low water spring tides, with the following bearings, viz.:-
Tsing-seu lighthouse,
Tae-tan (Taitan)
17
JAPAN.
..S. 41° E.
.S. 85° E.
NIPON ISLAND-EAST COAST.
(2) Fog Signal at Kingkusan Lighthouse.
The Japanese Government has given Notice, dated 27th December 1879, that a fog signal has been established at the hthouse on Kingkasan (Kinkwasan) island, east coast of Nipon :-
The signal is a steam Syren, which, during thick weather, fogs or snowstorms, will give a blast of five seconds duration at intervals of fifty-five seconds.
(The bearings are Mugnetic. Variation, 4 Westerly in 1880.)
By Command of their Lordships,
Hydrographic Office, Admiralty, London, 31st March 1830.
This Notice affects the following Admiralty Charts :---
FRED. J. EVANS,
Hydrographer.
(1) (Temporarily). Amoy harbour and approaches, No. 1767 : Also, Admiralty List of Lights in 'outh Africa, China, &c., 1880, page 24; China Sea Directory, vel. III, 1874. page 173.
(2) Nipon island, &c., No. 2347; harbours and anchorages on east coast of Nipon, No. 208: also. Admiralty List of Lights in South Africa, gan. &c., 1880, No. 217; and China Sea Directory, vol. IV., 1873, page 198.
The substance 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 margin, or otherwise in the page, of the Sailing Directions to which it relates. See Admiralty Instructions, Navigation and Pilotage, pp.
2&313.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
(No. 57.)
CHINA SEA.
(1) Banka Island-Sunker Danger off' North-east Coast.
The Netherlands Government has given Notice of the existence of a sunken danger situated to the north-east of Baka island, in the northern approach to Gaspar strait-
This danger (Soembing shoal), reported by H.N.M. Surveying-vessel. Socmbing, is about 220 yards in extent and
with a least depth over it of 11⁄2 fathoms and 18 to 20 fathoms around, Position, lat. 1o 53'0" S.; long. 106° 56′ 12′′ E.
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