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OHiP.vii.] MACCLESFIELD CKANNEL;—DIEEOTIONS. 343
Shoal-water idatid should not be approadhed from the westward nearer
than 3 miles; bearing N.N.E. | E. it will lead one mile westward of
Branding breakers. •
ThePadang, Haaijen, Turtle, and Hancock shoals maybe approached to
one mile, if a good look-out be kept when in their vicinity.
CLEMENT CHANNEL.
This channel is much narrower and more encumbered with dangers than
either Macclesfield or Stolze channels. It is separated from the former by
the four small islands, named Bakau, Klambau, Slemar, Kwil, and Pulo
Leat, which form its western limit. To the eastward it is separated
from Stolze channel by Ayer, Klemar, and Gb-esik, three small islands
lying close together, so that the entrances to both channels, either from the
southward or the northward, are common.
ISLETS AND REEFS.—Bakau (Low) and Klambau
(Saddlo), are two small islands nearly one mile apart, and about
half amile in diaineter, lying in a S.E. by S. direction' about 8 miles fi-om
Pulo Leat. Eakau island, the westernmost, is 123 feet high ; Klambau
island has two hills forming a saddle, the western hill being 210 feet, and
the eastern 266 feet high. Both islands are surounded by reefs.
R6ef.—-A- dangerous reef nearly one mile in extent lies one mile northeastward
of Klambau island.
Slemar (Sand) Island, lying 3^ miles north-westward of Bakau
island, is small, low, and surrounded by rgcks to the distance of on^-third
of amUe.
Kwil (Barn) Island, lying about l J miles eastward from Slemar
island, is about a third of a mile in diameter, 154 feet feet high, axid
surrounded by a reef to the distance of about one-third of a mile.
Reefs, dry at low water, extend 1| miles between the bearings, of
S. by E., and S. by W. from Barn island.
Ayer (Soutll) Island, one of.,the! islands on the east side of
Clement channel, lies S,E. byE.-^ E., 10 miles from the south-east point of
Pulo Leat. It is about one male in diameter, 200 feet in height, and
surrounded by a reef extending about half a mile ; off its south extreme is
an isolated reef, distant three-quarters of a mile. The reef is steep, to.r
. Gjpesik or: Table, islaiid, lymg 2 miles eastward from Ayer i,sj^l*(?^ and
bordering Stolze channel, is described on page 350. ,
Klemar (North) Island, 240 feet high, lying IJ miles northward
of Ayer island, is surrounded by a reef, which expends about one
thijrd of a mile. At three-quarters of a -mile E..jN.E. from the. island-is a
reef dry at low water, with 16 fathoms closest©, and 15 fathoms between
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