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444 VARELLA AND DXJRIAN STRAITS. [ohae. m.
At about .half a mile off the -north-west extreme ^of Dedap lie^wo smaU
islets, encircled by a reef ; these islets form the southern limit ;o£,At)ao:g
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RODONG GROUP lies to the westward of Niamok and Missana,
{see page 412) and comprises six islands, separated by narrow unavailable
channels. Eodong, the northern ' island, is 797 feet high, and is one" of
the principal land-marks for, making Bhio strait. The three eastera
islands are known as the Desie islands : the two western as the Madang
islands.,
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The channel between Missana and the Eodong .group is encumbered
with numerous dangers, and should not be used.
DUA ISLANDS, siliiated a,bout 2\ miles westward of Madang
islands, are two low islands, each encircled by a reef extending ill some
places a quarter of a mile from! the shore and divided by a narrow channel
having a depth of 4 fathoms. Two reefs, each about half a mile in extent,
and separated by a narrow deep-water channel, lie from 1 J to 2 miles north-
westward of Dua islands. On thfe south end of the southern reef is an
islet, and at the north end are some rocks above water ; on the north-east
extreme of the northern reef is Tree rock, 14 feet above high water.
A coral patch, with 3 fathoms water, alid 11 to 14 fathoms close around
it, lies N.W. by W. | W. one mile from Tree rock ; the channel between
them is safe.
TETAMPAN GROUP, situated north-westward of the iRodOng
group, occupies a circular space about 4 miles in diameter, and is comprised
of several islands, islets, and rocks, separated from each other by narrow
intrica,te channels which are obstructed by numerous reefs and dangers.
Tetampan, the south-western island, is 390 feet high, and the most con-
spicuous of the group ; Binan and Katang Linga forms its eastern and
northern limits, and the Nopong islands, with the adjacent islets and reefs,
its north-western.
TEMIANG STRAIT, leading from the China sea to Durian and
other straits adjacent, is about 14 miles long in a west-north-west and east-
south-east direction, and 2 miles broad ;
on its south-side are the northern
islands of the Sfebangka group, Temiang, Pintu, and Kebat, and to the
northward are Niamok, the Eodong group, Dua islands, and Tree rock
reefs.
A dangerous pinnacle rock, awash' at low water, and diflScult to m&ke
out, lies in the southern entrance of this strait, about one mile N.E. of
Eeman islands, a group of small islands off the south-east extreme of
Temiang. This danger may be passed on either feide, the 'Channel to the
southward being three-quarters of a mile vride, but it is preferable io'pass
to the northward ; in doing so, however, care is necessary to avoid tft6