Beveridge Reef

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Revision as of 16:03, 20 August 2008

Contents

Beveridge Reef Cruising Guide

Beveridge Reef
Beveridge Reef sketch

Background

Beveridge Reef is an undersea mountain capped by a coral atoll 20º00S 167º47'W. It encloses a lagoon about 4 nM long in a NS direction and about 2nM wide. Apart from breaking seas, the reef is not visible (Pacific Islands Pilot, 1984).

As reported by W J Gleeson of the Odyssey in July 1996, Beveridge Reef only barely extends above water, offering shelter to boats who can negotiate its 7m shallow entrance sill. The reef is rather large, about 5 x 4 nM or 9.5 x 7.5 km, about half the length and width of Niue and one quarter it's area. Please note that the sketch on the right is a hand-drawn chart, not suitable for navigation, but its GPS co-ordinates are more reliable than those on present nautical charts. Click on the map for a larger version. A latest report (2004) mentions that the trawler wreck has become invisible. Shallowest part of entrance: S 20º 00.06' W 167º 46.62'.

Unlike Niue, Beveridge Reef does not emerge like a raised atoll. Its rim and lagoon are still being built by coral organisms that need to stay submerged in order to grow. This suggests that Beveridge Reef is rather young, from after the last ice age, as the waters rose to what they are now, some 14,000 years ago.

Charts

Submit the chart details that are required for safe navigation.

Radio Nets

Also see Cruiser's Nets

Weather

Local weather conditions?

Approach and Navigation

Details?

Anchorages

  • As it is also subjected to the SE trade winds and swells, best anchorage is towards the wreck of a 27m (90FT) trawler on a course of 110º Magnetic. On this course, coral bommies leave about 6m of water above them. This anchorage provides best shelter against the SE trade winds. The anchorage at 11m is at S 20º 01.00' W 167º 45.00' (see sketch)

Routes/Passages To/From

Popular passages/routes, timing, etc.

Things to do

  • A good dive spot is reported just south of the entrance at the eye of the anchor symbol (in the sketch).

References & Publications

Publications, Guides, etc.

Forum Discussions

List links to discussion threads on the Cruiser Log Forum

External Links

Personal Notes

Personal experiences?

Last Visited & Details Checked (and updated here)

Date of member's visit to this Port/Stop & this page's details validated:


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