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426 BHIO STRAIT.
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shoal, and with Tanjong Subong north extreme bearing E. | N. distant
2^ miles. About midway between Crocodile and NetSCher shoialB is^ a
patch of 4 fathoms.
Clearing marks.—Pulo Kera bearing S. by W. ^ W., leads three
quarters of a mile westward of the Crocodile, and clear of. the 4 faithoms
patch; the northern extreme of Tanjong Subong, bearing Er^S. leads half
a mile to the northward.
Sau lighthouse bearing S.S.W. J W., clears the shoal bank northward of
Malang Yarong, and also Netseher and Crocodile shoals.
SUBONG BAY, the deep bight 6 miles across, between Pulo Kera
and Tanjong Subong, is nearly filled up with reefs which extend 2^ miles
from the shore of the south-east part of the bay, where the Sungi Subong
Besar enters it ; there are alsp several outlying rocks above -water in
the bay.
Rocks.—Outer rock, the farthest off shore of the rocks in Subong bay,
is about 10 feet high ; it lies N.E. by E. f E., 1-j^ miles from Netseher
shoal, with Pulo Kera bearing S.W. by S. distant 2^ miles. The Pap, a
rock which dries 6 feet, lies three-quarters of a mile southward of it, just
inside the 3-fathom line of the shore bank. A single rock, about 6 feet
high, lies E. by S. ^ S. half a mile from Outer rock; and at half a mile
beyond in the same direction is a small group of rocks above water, close
off the reef fronting the shore.
Tanjong Subong
is the north-west extreme of Bentan and the
north-eastern limit of Ehio strait. A small islet lies off the pitch pf the
point, and S.W. by W. one third of a mile from this islet is a sunken rock.
Some islets also lie close to the coast south-eastward of Tanjong Subong.
Anchorage.—There is safe anchorage in Subong bay, iu 4 fathoms
sand and mud, at about one mile E.N.E. of Oute^rock.
Tides.—It is high, water at Tanjong Subong about Ih. 50m. . before
Rhio, or at 8 hours.
TIDES.—The flood tidal wave in the China sea comes from the
northward and, being divided by the island of Bentan, sweeps round its
shores and flows into Ehio strait at both ends, the stream from Singapore
strait meeting that from the southward in the space between Tiemara
island and Ehio. In the northern entrance, on the western side, a portion
of the flood tide entering the strait is deflected between Malang Orang and
Pan reefs, and runs to the north-westward with the flood to Singapore^ or
in the reverse direction to the flood stream entering the main passage of
Ehio strait ; the ebb takes the reverse direction circling southward of Pan
reef, where it joins the main stream ebbing north-eastward. This must be
guarded against when near Pan reefs.
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