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381 CARIMATA STRAIT. [ciiap.viii.
Steil island, tte easternmost of the group, has a reef extending
3 cables north-west of it ; between Steil and Boom islands there are
depths from 16 to 20 fathoms.
A small reef with 4 fathoms water, and about one mile in extent, lies
one mile northward from Steil island.
Osterly channel, the passage between the reefs extending eastward
of Carimata island and Lising, is intricate, being obstructed hy many
shallow patches, between which the currents run with strength. Vessels
should not use this channel, but pass eastward of Steil island.
Buan or Pyramid island, the remarkable conical peak of
which is 1,017 feet high, lies 7J miles north-eastward of Carimata island.
A reef extends 4| cables eastward £i-om the island.
Ular and Pulo Nibong
lie respectively W.N.W. distant 1^ miles,
and E. by S. three-quarters of a mile from Buan island, with channels
between them having depths of 8 to 12 fatlioms ; both these islands are
rocky and have a few trees upon them.
A reef, which occasionally breaks, lies nearly 2 miles E. by S. from
Nibong island, with apparently foul ground between.
Jamsetjee or Seno shoal, composed of coarse sand and stones,
has 5 fathoms least water, and lies with Buan island peak bearing E.S.E.,
and Bliang peak S.S.W.
Leman islands, are a group of rocky islands lying 15 miles north
of Carimata island. Pako, the easternmost island is the largest and 164 feet
high, with a reef extending to the northward about 6 cables. The
M estern island, Leman Budi, has a rounded appearance, and is covered
with verdure.
The channel between Budi and the eastern islands of the group is one
mile wide, with a depth of 14 fathoms ; but the channels between the
other islands are narrow and obstructed by reefs.
SHOALS.—Gwalia shoal is the southernmost of a group of
coral shoals extending about 14 miles in a north and south direction, and
situated north-westward of the Leman islands. It is a round coral patch
about 2 cables in diameter, with less than 6 feet on it at low water, from
which Budi, the western Leman island, bears S.E. by E. ^ E. about
21^ miles, and Carimata peak S.E. | S. The depths around the shoal are
from 7 to 10 fathoms. The wreck of the Gwalia lies on its southern
edge.
Erickson shoal, about 2 cables in extent, with a least depth of
4J fathoms, lies about 3 miles north-west of Gwalia shoal, with depths of
7 to 1 1 fathoms at one cable distant.
Twilight reef, upon which the American ship Twilight struck, lies
l^.E. by N. nearly 5 miles from Grwalia, shoal.