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CHAv.vii.] DANGERS SOTITHWAKD 01" GASPAB STRAIT. 333
mile, with some rocks above water on its outer edge. A patch of 3 fathoms
lies 4 cables off the west edge of the reef.
Between Hancock and Shoal-water island I'eefs is a narrow channel
with depths of 6 to 10 fathoms.
LIGHT.—From a white lighthouse, 200 feet high, erected on the
west side of Shoal-water Island, is exhibited at an elevation of 215 feet
above high water, a fixed white light, visible in clear weather from a
distance of 20 miles. Position, lat. 3° 19^' S., long. 107° 12|' E.
One-PatllOlIl Patch..—A patch having a depth of one fathom, and
7 to 9 fathoms around, lies W. \ N. nearly 2 miles from Shoal-water
island.
Embleton Rocks, awash, he on a sand-bank which nearly dries,
distant 2 miles N".W. by N. from Shoal-water island ; there are depths of
11 to 14 fathoms around the bank.
Bliss SIlOEIs, lie one mile north-eastward of Embleton rocks, and
are about one-third of a mile in extent ; the least depth is 2 feet, with
6 to 12 fathoms at a short distance. A patch of 3 fathoms lies midway
betw een Bliss shoals and Hancock island.
VANSITTART SHOALS are a number of rocky patches
extending 10 miles south-westward of Bakau island, east side of Maccles-
field channel. The two southern patches of this group lie nearly east
and west from each other, and about 3 miles apart. From the western
patch of 4 feet, Kwil island bears N.N.E. \ E. distant 11^ miles ; from the
eastern patch of 1^ feet, Kwil island bears N. by E. distant 11 mile?.
A patch of 3f fathoms lies with Bakou island bearing N. \ E., distant
1\ miles.
Near the centre of the Vansittart group are patches extending about
one mile, one of which nearly dries.
The northern patches of the group are 2 miles apart in an E.N.E. and
W.S.W. direction. Prom the south-west patch of 4 feet, Kwil island bears
N.N.E. distant Q\ miles. From the north-east patch, of 1^ fathoms,
Bakau island bears N.E. distant 2\ miles.
For the marks to clear Vansittart shoals, see page 340.
G-EORGE BANKS is the name given to the banks lying southward
and south-westward of Murong point.
TwO-and-a-Half Fathoms Bank, formerly known as George
bank, is 2\ miles long, and one mile broad, within a depth of 5 fathoms.
The least depth, 2| fathoms, lies with Murong point, bearing N. \ W.,
distant 6^ miles.
Rocky point hill open eastward of Murong point, leads eastward of the
bank.