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348 GASPAB, STRAIT. [chap. vii.
Cooper shoals, lying 2^ miles northward from Anvang bank,
have a depth of 2 feet, and from 7 to 10 fathoms close-to, with Gunong
Bolo bearing N.W. by N., distant 8 miles.
Three-feet shoal, lying 4^ miles north-westward from Cooper
shoals, with Gunong Bolo bearing N. ^ W. distant 4J^ miles, is a patch
having 3 feet water, and 10 to 13 fathoms around.
Patches with depths of 3 to 5 fathoms, lie between Cooper and Three-
feet shoals.
Masar (Kennedy) and Otan Islands.—Kennedy is a small
island, lying 6^ miles N.E. by E. of Anvang bank. A small islet lies
three-quarters of a mile north-west of it. Otan is rather smaller than
Kennedy island, and lies about 1| miles E.S.E. from it.
Other islands and dangers lie to the southward of Billiton, (see page 375)
but they are to the eastward of the track of vessels bound through Gaspar
strait.
THE WEST COAST OP BILLITON, forming the eastern
limit of Gaspar strait, is fronted by numerous islands, separated by narrow,
and for the most part, unnavigable passages. Pulo Selio, with the dangers
westward of it ; the Lima island group, and Pulo Mendanao the largest
of the islands, form the eastern limit of Stolze channel.
Hills on the Coast.—At the south-west extreme of Billiton are
the Gunong Beginda (Haycocks), two remarkable hills, 496 feet high,
which, when coming from the southward, appear as islands. At 5 miles
north-eastward of the Haycocks is Beluru or Blantu hill, 1,166 feet high,
and to the eastward of Blantu are Luda, Pyramid and South peak, all of
which serve to determine a vessel's position wheu approaching the strait
from the southward.
At 7 miles northward of Blantu are Kilang, 1,198 feet, and Kubing
1,090 feet high ; at 10 or 11 miles northward of Blantu is Agong, 1,242
feet high, and 7 miles northward of Agong is Liang, 1,096 feet high.
The whole of the hiUs just mentioned are visible from the southward and
south-westward. At 3 miles south-eastward from Tanjong Bienga, a high
bluff forming the north-western extremity of Billiton, is Gunong Tobalo,
the highest part of which is 540 feet high.
ISLETS and DANGERS.—Pulo Selio, is 3^ miles in length,
with a conspicuous hill, 242 feet high, upon its south extreme, named
Gunong Bolo ; it is surrounded by a reef, which, on the south-east side
extends 3 J miles, with Pulo Saribu standing about midway on it. Pulo
Saribu is separated from the south-western point of Billiton by a channel
nearly 2 miles in width, but its south entrance is blocked by a reef lying
southward of Pulo Saribu, 4 miles in length.