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310 BANKA STRAIT, [oha*. ti.
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miles . inland between -Tanjong Puni and, JVtuntok are some
bills,,oae,o£.-whicli,iJBukit-Belu, 773 feet high, serves as a elearimg mark
for Brom-Brom reef, and Amelia bank.,
Monopin Hill rises near the west end of Bankaj its summit being
1,456 feet high, may be seen afr a considerable distance, and- sei-ves as a
guide in approaching to. or departing from the north end of Banka strait.
It frequently happens that this hill is the only visible object, especially
when a vessel is near Sumatra in 5 or'6 fathoms water.
BANKS.—Shore mud-bank,—The edge of the shore mudbank
(page 307), after passing a distance of one cable outside the rocks off
Tanjong Tedong, takes a N.N.W. direction, till abreast Meddang islands,
outside of which it extends nearly one mile. Thence it curves round
Mundo bay, projecting 4 miles southward of Tanjong Jurung-patt ; it then
turns westward, passing Tanjong Eessam at 4^ miles, and Tanjong Tadah
at nearly 3 miles.
From Tanjong Tadah the bank still follows a westerly direction till
south of Tanjong Puni, when it trends away sharply to the north-west-
ward, following the curve of the coast line at an average distance of about
l^ miles until abreast the point eastward of Muntok, from which it is
distant o'nly half a mile.
Between Tanjong Tedong and Tanjong Tadah, the soundings decrease
regularly towards the bank, which may there bo approached to 5 or 4
fathoms, except near Meddang islands, where a vessel should not shoal
under 5 fathoms. At' Tanjong Tadah the bank begins to get steeper-to,
and abreast of Karang Saribu, there are depths of 9 and 10 fathoms close to
its edge.
Clearing Mark.—Mundo peak, well open to the southward of
Meddang islands, leads clear southward of this bank as far westward as
Tanjong Tadah.
The bank south of Tanjong Puni is shallow and steep- to, having from
1 1 to 16 fathoms, almost close to its edge. Tanjong Tadah bearing E.'N.E,.
leads just clear to the eastward of" this dangerous spit j and Monopin hill,
N.W. by N. leads just clear to the westward.
Karang Brom-Brom is an extensive shoal of rocks and sand, dry
in places at low water, iying 4^ miles south from Tanjong Sukal. It is *a
little more than 2 Blilea long ,
in aii east and west direction, and nearly half
a pile, wide at its western, end, where the., .rocks are, and from which
Monopin hill bears JS^.W. ^ N. ; the eastern end tapers away to a sandy
point.
Buoy.—On the i south side of Karang BromrBrom lies a red beacon
buoy, in & fathoms..,; i
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