Beveridge Reef
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| Location | Exclusion Zone 5 |
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Beveridge Reef (Niuean: Nukutulueatama) is a mostly submerged, unpopulated atoll located in the Exclusive Economic Zone of Niue. It has been the cause of several fishing boats running aground or sinking.
Characteristics
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The Beveridge Reef is a coral atoll that is approximately 147 miles (237 km) from Niue and 520 miles (840 km) from the Cook Islands.[1][2][3] The reef is normally submerged,[4] with a small part visible at low tide.[1][5]
Wrecks
[edit]The reef is the site of frequent shipwrecks:[6]
- in 1918, the schooner James H. Bruce, [7]
- the Nicky Lou of Seattle, a fiberglass hulled fishing vessel that ran aground on the reef, can be seen on the reef.[8][9]
- in 2017, the catamaran Avanti.[10][11]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b South Pacific Commission (1992). The South Pacific Commission Fisheries Newsletter.
- ^ John Robert Victor Prescott; Grant Boyes (2000). Undelimited Maritime Boundaries in the Pacific Ocean Excluding the Asian Rim. IBRU. pp. 14–. ISBN 978-1-897643-39-6.
- ^ "National Geographic Society Newsroom". Archived from the original on October 7, 2016.
- ^ A. G. Findlay (28 March 2013). A Directory for the Navigation of the Pacific Ocean, with Descriptions of Its Coasts, Islands, Etc.: From the Strait of Magalhaens to the Arctic Sea, and Those of Asia and Australia. Cambridge University Press. p. 805. ISBN 978-1-108-05973-2.
- ^ P. J. Dalzell; G. L. Preston; SPC Fisheries Programme (1992). Deep Reef Slope Fishery Resources of the South Pacific : a summary and analysis of the dropline fishing survey data generated by the activities of the SPC Fisheries Programme between 1974 and 1988. South Pacific Commission.
- ^ Grimshaw, Beatrice Ethel (1907). In the Strange South Seas. Hutchinson & Company. p. 183.
Beveridge Reef wreck.
- ^ "The Seamen's Journal". 1919.
- ^ Miles Hordern (20 May 2014). Sailing the Pacific: A Voyage Across the Longest Stretch of Water on Earth, and a Journey into Its Past. St. Martin's Press. p. 247. ISBN 978-1-4668-7196-0.
- ^ Borgese, Elisabeth Mann; Ginsburg, Norton Sydney (1994). Ocean Yearbook. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226066141.
- ^ "British family of four rescued from remote reef in Pacific Ocean". TheGuardian.com. 28 August 2017.
- ^ Adams, Bernard Lagan. "Reef was complete surprise, says Pacific shipwreck father Bobby Cooper".
External links
[edit]- Beveridge Reef by Wolfgang Schippke
- Geography and geology of Niue
- Exploring new frontiers off Niue, Skin Diver Online
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