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conclude, without further evidence, that they were fringed, and hence I have applied the red colour with rather greater freedom than in other instances.—Matthew's Rock, an active volcano, someway south of the group (of which a plan is given in Atlas of the Astrolabe's Voyage) does not appear to have reefs of any kind a... |
Hebrides; from a rough wood-cut given in the United Service Journal (1831, Part iii. p. 190,) accompanying a paper by Mr. Bennett, it appears that the shore is fringed; coloured red.—Tanna; Forster, in his Observations (p. 22,) says Tanna has on its shores coral-rock and madrepores; and the younger Forster, in his acco... |
harbour says, the whole S.E. side consists of coral-reefs, which are overflowed at high water: part of the southern shore in Cook's chart is represented as fringed; coloured red.—Immer, is described (United Service Journ. 1831, Part iii. p. 192,) by Mr. Bennett, as being of moderate elevation, with cliffs appearing lik... |
I have not coloured it; and I mention these facts, because Immer might have been thought, from Forster's classification (Observations, p. 14,) to have been a low island, or even an atoll.—Erromango Isl.; Cook (2d Voyage, vol. ii. p. 45, 4to. edit.) speaks of rocks every where lining the coast, and the natives offered t... |
breakers to the sandy beach: Mr. Bennett, in a letter to the editor of the Singapore Chron., alludes to the reefs on its shores. It may, I think, be safely inferred from these passages that the shore is fringed in parts by coral reefs; coloured red.—Sandwich Isld., the east coast is said (Cook's 2d Voyage, vol. ii. p. ... |
be low, and to be guarded by a chain of breakers. In the accompanying chart it is seen to be fringed by a reef; coloured red.—Mallicollo; Forster speaks of the reef-bounded shore: the reef is about thirty yards wide, and so shallow that a boat cannot pass over it. Forster, also, (Observat. p. 23,) says, that the rocks ... |
sea-shore consist of madrepore. In the plan of Sandwich harbour, the headlands are represented as fringed; coloured red.—Aurora and Pentecost Islds., according to Bougainville, apparently have no reefs: nor has the large isld. of S. Espiritu, nor Bligh Isld. or Banks' Islds., which latter lie to the N.E. of the Hebride... |
with any detailed account of their shores, or seen plans on a large scale; and it will be evident, that a fringing reef of only thirty, or even a few hundred yards in width, is of so little importance to navigation, that it will seldom be noticed, excepting by chance; and hence I do not doubt that several of these |
islands, now left uncoloured, ought to be red. SANTA-CRUZ GROUP.—Vanikoro (Fig. 1, Pl. I.) offers a striking example of a barrier-reef: it was first described by the Chevalier Dillon, in his Voyage, and was surveyed in the Astrolabe; coloured pale blue.—Tikopia and Fataka islands appear, from the descriptions of Dillon... |
flat isld., surrounded by cliffs, (Astrolabe Hydrog. and Krusenstern Mem. vol. ii. p. 432); these are uncoloured.—Toupoua (Otooboa of Dillon) is stated by Capt. Tromelin (Annales Marit. 1829, p. 289) to be almost entirely included in a reef, lying at the distance of two miles from the shore. There is a space of three m... |
indented with bays, offers no anchorage from the extreme depth of the water close to the shore: Capt. Dillon also speaks of the reefs fronting this island; coloured blue.—Santa-Cruz. I have carefully examined the works of Carteret, Dentrecasteaux, Wilson, and Tromelin, and I cannot discover any mention of reefs on its ... |
reefs.—Mendana Isles, (mentioned by Dillon under the name of Mammee, &c.); said by Krusenstern to be low, and intertwined with reefs. I do not believe they include a lagoon; I have left them uncoloured.—Duff's islds. compose a small group directed in a N.W. and S.E. band; they are described by Wilson, (p. 296, Miss. Vo... |
bold peaked land, with the islands surrounded by coral-reefs, extending about half a mile from the shore: at the distance of a mile from the reefs he found only seven fathoms. As I have no reason for supposing there is deep water within these reefs, I have coloured them red.—Kennedy isld., N.E. of Duff's: I have been u... |
any account of it. NEW CALEDONIA.—The great barrier-reefs on the shores of this island have already been described: (Fig. 5, Pl. II.) They have been visited by Labillardière, Cook, and the northern point by D'Urville; this latter part so closely resembles an atoll that I have coloured it dark blue. The Loyalty group is... |
the chart and description given in the voyage of the Astrolabe, they do not appear to have any reefs; north of this group, there are some extensive low reefs, (called Astrolabe and Beaupré,) which do not seem to be atoll-formed; these are left uncoloured. AUSTRALIAN BARRIER-REEF.—The limits of this great reef, which ha... |
the charts of Flinders and King. In the northern parts, an atoll-formed reef, lying outside the barrier, has been described by Bligh, and is coloured dark blue. In the space between Australia and New Caledonia, called by Flinders the Corallian Sea, there are numerous reefs. Of these, some are represented in Krusenstern... |
shoal, Frederic, Vine or Horse-shoe, and Alert reefs; these have been coloured dark blue. LOUISIADE: the dangerous reefs which front and surround the western, southern, and northern coasts of this so-called peninsula and archipelago, seem evidently to belong to the barrier class. The land is lofty, with a low fringe on... |
outside them profoundly deep. Nearly all that is known of this group is derived from the labours of Dentrecasteaux and Bougainville: the latter has represented one continuous reef ninety miles long, parallel to the shore, and in places as much as ten miles from it; coloured pale blue. A little distance northward, we ha... |
which are engraved in the atlas of the Voyage of the Astrolabe, in the same manner as in the encircled islands of the Caroline arch.: the reef is, in parts, a mile and a half from the shore, to which it does not appear to be attached; coloured blue. At some little distance from the extremity of the Louisiade lies |
Wells reef, described in G. Hamilton's Voyage in H.M.S. Pandora, (p. 100): it is said, "we found we had got embayed in a double reef, which will soon be an island." As this statement is only intelligible on the supposition of the reef being crescent or horse-shoe formed, like so many other submerged annular reefs, I ha... |
it blue. SALOMAN ARCHIPELAGO: the chart in Krusenstern's atlas shows that these islands are not encircled, and as coral appears, from the works of Surville, Bougainville, and Labillardière, to grow on their shores, this circumstance, as in the case of the New Hebrides, is a presumption that they are fringed. I cannot f... |
southern islds. of the group, so have left them uncoloured.—Malayta Isld. in a rough MS. chart in the Admiralty has its northern shore fringed.—Ysabel Isld., the N.E. part of this island, in the same chart, is also fringed: Mendana, speaking (Burney, vol. i. p. 280) of an islet adjoining the northern coast, says it is ... |
also, of Port Praslin appear regularly fringed.—Choiseul Isld.; in Bougainville's chart of Choiseul Bay, parts of the shores are fringed by coral-reefs.—Bougainville Isld.; according to Dentrecasteaux, the western shore abounds with coral-reefs, and the smaller islands are said to be attached to the larger ones by reef... |
informed me in a letter, that he passed close round the northern side of this island, (of which a plan is given in his atlas of the Coquille's Voyage,) and that it was "garnie d'une bande de récifs à fleur d'eau adherentes au rivage;" and he infers, from the abundance of coral on the islands north and south of Bouka, |
that the reef probably is of coral; coloured red. Off the north coast of the Salomon Arch., there are several small groups which are little known: they appear to be low, and of coral formation; and some of them probably have an atoll-like structure: the Chev. Dillon, however, informs me this is not the case with the B.... |
Java, according to the Spanish Navigator, Maurelle, is thus characterized; but this is the only one, which I have ventured to colour blue. NEW IRELAND.—The shores of the S.W. point of this island and some adjoining islets, are fringed by reefs, as may be seen in the Atlases of the Voyages of the Coquille and Astrolabe.... |
the reefs are open in front of each streamlet. The Duke of York's Isld. is also fringed; but with regard to the other parts of New Ireland, New Hanover, and the small islands lying northward, I have been unable to obtain any information. I will only add that no part of New Ireland appears to be fronted by distant reefs... |
I have coloured red only the above specified portions. NEW BRITAIN and the NORTHERN SHORE of NEW GUINEA.—From the charts in the Voyage of the Astrolabe, and from the Hydrog. Memoir, it appears that these coasts are entirely without reefs, as are the Schouten islands, lying close to the northern shore of New Guinea. The... |
New Guinea, will be treated of when we come to the islands of the East Indian Archipelago. ADMIRALTY GROUP.—From the accounts by Bougainville, Maurelle, Dentrecasteaux, and the scattered notices collected by Horsburgh, it appears, that some of the many islds. composing it, are high, with a bold outline; and others are ... |
high islands appear to be fronted by distant reefs rising abruptly from the sea, and within some of which, there is reason to believe that the water is deep. I have therefore little doubt they are of the barrier class. In the southern part of the group, we have Elizabeth isld., which is surrounded by a reef at the dist... |
of a mile; and two miles eastward of it (Krusenstern, Append. 1835, p. 42) there is a little island containing a lagoon. Near here, also, lies Circular-reef, (Horsburgh Direct. vol. I. p. 691. 4th edit.) "three or four miles in diameter, having deep water inside with an opening at the N.N.W. part, and on the outside st... |
from these data, coloured the group pale blue, and circular-reef dark blue.—The Anachorites, Echequier, and Hermites, consist of innumerable low islands of coral formation, which probably have atoll-like forms; but not being able to ascertain this, I have not coloured them, nor Durour isld., which is described by Carte... |
the hydrographical labours of Lutké: it contains about forty groups of atolls, and three encircled islands, two of which are engraved in Fig. 2 and 7, Pl. I. Commencing with the eastern part; the encircling reef round Ualan, appears to be only about half a mile from the shore; but as the land is low, and covered with m... |
autour da Monde, par F. Lutké, vol. i. p. 339) the real margin has not probably been ascertained. The extreme depth in one of the harbours within the reef, is 33 fathoms, (see charts in atlas of Coquille's Voyage,) and outside at half a mile distance from the reef, no bottom was obtained with 250 fathoms. The reef is s... |
by many islets, and the lagoon-like channel within is mostly shallow, and appears to have been much encroached on by the low land surrounding the central mountains; these facts show that time has allowed much detritus to accumulate; coloured pale blue.—Pouynipète or Seniavine. In the greater part of the circumference o... |
three quarters distant: on the north side it is five miles off the included high islets. The reef is broken in several places; and just within it, the depth in one place is 30 fathoms, and in another, 28, beyond which, to all appearance, there was "un porte vaste et sur." (Lutké, vol. ii. p. 4.) coloured pale blue.—Hog... |
Roug. This wonderful group contains at least 62 islands, and its reef is 135 miles in circuit. Of the islands, only a few, about six or eight, (see Hydrog. description, p. 428 of the Voyage of the Astrolabe, and the large accompanying chart taken chiefly from that given by Duperrey,) are high, and the rest are all smal... |
formed on the reef. The depth of the great interior lake has not been ascertained; but Capt. D'Urville appears to have entertained no doubt about the possibility of taking in a frigate. The reef lies no less than fourteen miles distant from the northern coasts of the interior high islds.; seven from their western sides... |
the sea is deep outside. This island is a likeness on a grand scale to the Gambier group in the Low Archipelago. Of the groups of low* islands forming the chief part of the Caroline Archipelago, all those of larger size, have the true atoll-structure, (as may be seen in the atlas by Capt. Lutké) and some even of the |
very small ones, as Macaskill and Duperrey, of which plans are given in the atlas of the Coquille's Voyage. There are however, some low, small islands of coral formation, namely, Ollap, Tamatam, Bigali, Satahoual, which do not contain lagoons; but it is probable that lagoons originally existed, but have since filled up... |
thought that all the low islands, with only one exception, contained lagoons. From the sketches, and from the manner in which the margins of these islands are engraved in the atlas of the Voyage of the Coquille, it might have been thought that they were not low; but by a comparison with the remarks of Lutké (vol. ii. p... |
regarding Bigali) and of Freycinet (Hydrog. Mem. L'Uranie, Voy. p. 188, regarding Tamatam, Ollap, &c.) it will be seen that the artist must have represented the land incorrectly. The most southern isld. in the group, namely, Piguiram, is not coloured, because I have found no account of it. Nougouor, or Monte Verdison, ... |
and figured by Mr. Bennett (United Service Journal, Jan. 1832,) as an atoll. All the above-mentioned islands have been coloured blue. WESTERN PART OF THE CAROLINE ARCHIPELAGO.—Fais Island * In D'Urville and Lottin's chart, Peserare is written with capital letters; but this evidently is an error, for it is one of the lo... |
Lutké's charts,)—a regular atoll. is 90 feet high, and is surrounded, as I have been informed by Admiral Lutké, by a narrow reef of living coral, of which the broadest part, as represented in the charts, is only 150 yards; coloured red.—Philip Isld., I believe, is low; but Hunter, in his Historical Journal, gives no cl... |
from the manner in which the islets on the reefs are engraved, in the Atlas of the Astrolabe's Voyage, I should have thought they were above the ordinary height; but Admiral Lutké assures me this is not the case: they form a regular atoll; coloured blue. Gouap (Eap of Chamisso,) is a high island with a reef (see Chart ... |
Voy. of Astrolabe,) more than a mile distant in most parts from the shore, and two miles in one part. Capt. D'Urville thinks that there would be anchorage (Hydrog. Descript. Astrolabe Voyage, p. 436.) for ships within the reef, if a passage could be found; coloured pale blue.—Goulou, from the chart in the Astrolabe's A... |
D'Urville (Hydrog. Descript. p. 437.) speaks of the low islets on the reef; coloured dark blue. PELEW ISLDS.—Krusenstern speaks of some of the islands being mountainous; the reefs are distant from the shore, and there are spaces within them, and not opposite valleys, with from ten to fifteen fathoms. According to a MS.... |
in the Admiralty, there is a large space within the reef with deepish water: although the high land does not hold a central position with respect to the reefs, as is generally the case, I have little doubt that the reefs of the Pelew islands ought to be ranked with the barrier-class, and I have coloured them pale blue.... |
Lieut. Elmer's chart there is a horse-shoe-formed shoal, laid down thirteen miles N.W. of Pelew, with fifteen fathoms within the reef, and some dry banks on it; coloured dark blue.—Spanish, Martires, Sanserot, Pulo Anna and Mariere islands are not coloured, because I know nothing about them, excepting that according to... |
on coral-reefs, and therefore perhaps contain lagoons; but Pulo Mariere is a little higher. MARIANA ARCHIPELAGO, or LADRONES.—Guahan. Almost the whole of this island is fringed by reefs, which extend in most parts about a third of a mile from the land. Even where the reefs are most extensive, the water within them is s... |
a navigable channel for boats and canoes within the reefs. In Freycinet's Hydrog. Mem., there is an account of these reefs, and in the atlas, a map on a large scale; coloured red.—Rota. "L'ile est presque entièrement entourée des récifs." (p. 212, Freycinet's Hydrog. Mem.) These reefs project about a quarter of a mile ... |
eastern coast is precipitous, and is without reefs; but the western side is fringed like the last island; coloured red.—Saypan. The N.E. coast, and likewise the western shores appear to be fringed; but there is a great, irregular, horn-like reef projecting far from this side; coloured red.—Farallon de Medinilla, appear... |
ventured to colour it red, although nothing is said about reefs in the Hydrographical Memoir. The several islands which form the northern part of the group are volcanic, (with the exception perhaps of Torres, which resembles in form the madreporitic island of Medinilla,) and appear to be without reefs. Mangs, however, ... |
Spanish charts, as formed of small islands placed "au milieu des nombreux récifs;" and as these reefs in the general chart of the group do not project so much as a mile; and as there is no appearance from a double line, of the existence of deep water within, I have ventured, although with much hesitation, to colour the... |
Respecting Folger and Marshall Islds., which lie some way east of the Marianas, I can find out nothing, excepting that they are probably low. Krusenstern says this of Marshall isl.; and Folger isl. is written with small letters in D'Urville's chart; uncoloured. BONIN or ARZOBISPO GROUP.—Peel Isld. has been examined by ... |
for giving me information regarding it: "at Port Lloyd there is a great deal of coral; and the inner harbour is entirely formed by coral reefs, which extend outside the port along the coast." Capt. Beechey, in another part of his letter to me, alludes to the reefs fringing the island in all directions; but at the same ... |
must be observed that the surf washes the volcanic rocks of the coast in the greater part of its circumference. I do not know whether the other islands of the Archipelago, are fringed; I have coloured Peel isld. red.—Grampus Isld. to the eastward, does not appear (Meare's Voyage, p. 95.) to have any reefs, nor does Ros... |
chart) which lies to the westward. Respecting the few other islands in this part of the sea, namely the Sulphur Islds. with an active volcano, and those lying between Bonin and Japan, (which are situated near the extreme limit in latitude, at which reefs are formed,) I have not been able to find any clear account. WEST... |
GUINEA.—Port Dory. From the charts in the Voyage of the Coquille, it would appear that the coast in this part is fringed by coral-reefs; M. Lesson, however, remarks that the coral is sickly; coloured red.—Waigiou. A considerable portion of the northern shore of these islands are seen in the charts (on a large scale) in... |
by coral-reefs. Forrest (p. 21, Voyage to New Guinea) alludes to the coral-reefs lining the heads of Piapis Bay; and Horsburgh, (vol. ii. p. 599, 4th edit.) speaking of the islands in Dampier Strait, says, "sharp coral-rocks line their shores;" coloured red.—In the sea north of these islands, we have Guedes, (or Freewi... |
given in the 4to edit. of Carteret's Voyage, must be an atoll. Krusenstern says the islets are very low; coloured blue.—Carteret's Shoals, in 2° 53' N., are described as circular, with stony points shewing all round, with deeper water in the middle; coloured blue.—Aiou; the plan of this group, given in the atlas of the... |
that it is an atoll; and, from a chart in Forrest's Voyage, it appears there is twelve fathoms within the circular reef; coloured blue.—The S.W. coast of New Guinea appears to be low, muddy, and devoid of reefs. The Arru, Timor laut and Tenimber groups have lately been examined by Capt. Kolff, the MS. translation of wh... |
Earl, I have been permitted to read, through the kindness of Capt. Washington, R.N. These islands are mostly rather low, and are surrounded by distant reefs; (the Ki Islands, however, are lofty, and, from Mr. Stanley's survey, appear without reefs;) the sea in some parts is shallow, in others profoundly deep, (as near ... |
charts, I have been unable to decide to which class these reefs belongs. From the distance to which they extend from the land where the sea is very deep, I am strongly inclined to believe they ought to come within the barrier class, and be coloured blue; but I have been forced to leave them uncoloured.—The last-mention... |
with the east end of Ceram by a chain of small islands, of which the small groups of Ceram-laut, Goram, and Keffing are surrounded by very extensive reefs, projecting into deep water, which, as in the last case, I strongly suspect belong to the barrier class; but I have not coloured them. From the south side of Keffing... |
project five miles, (Windsor Earl's sailing Direct. for the Arafura Sea, p. 9.) CERAM.—In various charts which I have examined, several parts of the coast are represented as fringed by reefs.—Manipa island, between Ceram and Bourou, in an old MS. chart in the Admiralty, is fringed by a very irregular reef, partly dry a... |
doubt is of coral formation; both islands coloured red.—Bourou; parts of this island appear fringed by coral-reefs, namely, the eastern coast, as seen in Freycinet's chart; and Cajeli Bay, which is said by Horsburgh (vol. ii. p. 630) to be lined by coral-reefs, that stretch out a little way, and have only a few feet wa... |
charts, portions of the islands forming the AMBOINA GROUP are fringed by reefs; for instance, Noessa, Harenca, and Ucaster, in Freycinet's charts. The above-mentioned islands have been coloured red, although the evidence is not very satisfactory.—North of Bourou the parallel line of the Xulla Isles extend: I have not b... |
(vol. ii. p. 543) says that the northern shore is surrounded by a reef at the distance of two or three miles; uncoloured.—Mysol Group; the Kanary Islands are said by Forrest (Voyage, p. 130) to be divided from each other by deep straits, and are lined with coral-rocks; coloured red.—Guebe, lying between Waigiou and Gil... |
and it is said by Freycinet, that all the soundings under five fathoms were on coral; coloured red.—Gilolo. In a chart published by Dalrymple, the numerous islands on the western, southern, (Batchian and the Strait of Patientia,) and eastern sides appear fringed by narrow reefs; these reefs, I suppose, are of coral, fo... |
xii. p. 156,) "sur les côtes (of Batchian) comme dans les plupart des iles de cet archipel, il y a de rocs de madrepores d'une beauté et d'une variété infinies." Forrest, also, (p. 50,) says Seland, near Batchian, is a little island with reefs of coral; coloured red.—Morty Island, (north of Gilolo); Horsburgh (vol. ii.... |
coast is lined by reefs, projecting one or two miles, and having no soundings close to them; I have left it uncoloured, although, as in some former cases, it ought probably to be pale blue.—Celebes. The western and northern coasts appear in the charts to be bold and without reefs. Near the extreme northern point, howev... |
Straits of Limbe, and part of the adjoining shore, appear to be fringed: the east side of the bay of Manado, has deep water, and is fringed by sand and coral, (Astol. Voyage Hydrog. Part, p. 453-4); this extreme point, therefore, I have coloured red.—Of the islands leading from this point to Magindanao, I have not been... |
any account, except of Serangani, which appears surrounded by narrow reefs; and Forrest (Voyage, p. 164) speaks of coral on its shores; I have, therefore, coloured this island red. To the eastward of this chain lie several islands; of which I cannot find any account, except of Karkalang, which is said by Horsburgh (vol... |
by a dangerous reef, projecting several miles from the northern shore; not coloured. ISLANDS NEAR TIMOR.—The account of the following islands is taken from Capt. D. Kolff's Voyage in 1825, translated by Mr. W. Earl, from the Dutch.—Lette has "reefs extending along shore at the distance of half a mile from the land."—Mo... |
a reef lining its shore; these islands are coloured red. Still more eastward, Luan has, differently from the last-mentioned islands, an extensive reef; it is steep outside, and within there is a depth of twelve feet; from these facts, it is impossible to decide which class this island belongs.—Kissa, off the point of T... |
reef, steep too on the outer side, over which small proahs can go at the time of high water;" coloured red.—Timor; most of the points, and some considerable spaces of the northern shore, are seen in Freycinet's chart to be fringed by coral-reefs; and mention is made of them in the accompanying Hydrog. Memoir; coloured ... |
in Flinders' chart to be fringed; but I have not coloured it, as I do not know that the reefs are of coral.—Sandalwood Isld. has, according to Horsburgh (vol. ii. p. 607,) a reef on its southern shore, four miles distant from the land; as the neighbouring sea is deep, and generally bold, this probably is a barrier-reef... |
have not ventured to colour it. N.W. COAST of AUSTRALIA.—It appears, in Capt. King's Sailing Directions (Narrative of Survey, vol. ii. pp. 325 to 369,) that there are many extensive coral-reefs skirting, often at considerable distances, the N.W. shores, and encompassing the small adjoining islets. Deep water, in no ins... |
land; and, therefore, they probably belong to the fringing class. But as they extend far into the sea, which is generally shallow, even in places where the land seems to be somewhat precipitous; I have not coloured them. Houtman's Abrolhos (lat. 28° S. on west coast) have lately been surveyed by Capt. Wickham (as descr... |
511): they lie on the edge of a steeply-shelving bank, which extends about 30 miles seaward, along the whole line of coast. The two southern reefs, or islands, enclose a lagoon-like space of water, varying in depth from 5 to 15 fathoms, and in one spot with 23 fathoms. The greater part of the land has been formed on th... |
inland sides, by the accumulation of fragments of corals; the sea- ward face consisting of nearly bare ledges of rock. Some of the specimens, brought home by Capt. Wickham, contained fragments of marine shells, but others did not; and these closely resembled a formation at King George's Sound, principally due to the ac... |
I shall describe in a forthcoming Part. From the extreme irregularity of these reefs with their lagoons, and from their position on a bank, the usual depth of which is only 30 fathoms, I have not ventured to class them with atolls, and hence have left them uncoloured.—Rowley Shoals. These lie someway from the N.W. coas... |
Capt. King (Narrative of Survey, vol. i. p. 60,) they are of coral-formation. They rise abruptly from the sea, and Capt. King had no bottom with 170 fathom close to them. Three of them are crescent-shaped; they are mentioned by Mr. Lyell, on the authority of Capt. King, with reference to the direction of their open sid... |
reef of the same group is entirely submerged," (Principles of Geolog., Book iii. chap. xviii.); coloured blue.—Scott's Reefs, lying north of Rowley Shoals, are briefly described by Capt. Wickham (Naut. Mag., 1841, p. 440): they appear to be of great size, of a circular form, and "with smooth water within, forming proba... |
break on the western side, where there probably is an entrance: the water is very deep off these reefs; coloured blue. Proceeding westward along the great volcanic chain of the East-Indian archipelago, Solor Strait is represented in a chart published by Dalrymple from a Dutch MS., as fringed; as are parts of Flores, of... |
of coral growing on these shores, and therefore I have no doubt that the reefs are of coral, and accordingly have coloured them red. We hear from Horsburgh (vol ii. p. 602,) that a coral flat bounds the shores of Sapy Bay. From the same authority it appears (p. 610,) that reefs fringe the island of Timor-Young, on the ... |
shore of Sumbawa; and, likewise, (p. 600,) that Bally town in Lombock, is fronted by a reef, stretching along the shore at the distance of a hundred fathoms, with channels through it for boats; these places, therefore, have been coloured red.—Bally Isld.: In a Dutch MS. chart on a large scale of Java, which was brought... |
Dr. Horsfield, who had the kindness to show it me at the India-House, its western, northern, and southern shores appear very regularly fringed by a reef (see, also, Horsburgh, vol. ii. p. 593); and as coral is found abundantly there, I have not the least doubt that the reef is of coral, and therefore have coloured it r... |
regarding the reefs of this great island is derived from the chart just mentioned. The greater part of Madura is represented in it as regularly fringed, and likewise portions of the coast of Java immediately south of it. Dr. Horsfield informs me that coral is very abundant near Sourabaya. The islets and parts of the N.... |
of Point Buang, or Japara, are fringed by reefs, said to be of coral. Lubeck, or Bavian islands, lying at some distance from the shore of Java, are regularly fringed by coral-reefs: Carimon Java appears equally so, though it is not directly said that the reefs are of coral; there is a depth between 30 and 40 fathoms ro... |
islands. Parts of the shores of Sunda Str., where the water is from 40 to 80 fathoms deep, and the islets near Batavia appear in several charts to be fringed. In the Dutch chart the southern shore, in the narrowest part of the island, is in two places fringed by reefs of coral. West of Segorrowodee Bay, and the extreme |
S.E. and E. portions are likewise fringed by coral-reefs; all the above-mentioned places coloured red. Macassar St.; the east coast of Borneo appears, in most parts, free from reefs, and where they occur, as on the coast of Pamaroong, the sea is very shallow; hence no part is coloured. In Macassar Str. itself, in about... |
many small islands with coral shoals projecting far from them. There are also (old charts by Dalrymple) numerous little flats of coral, not rising to the surface of the water, and shelving suddenly from five fathoms to no bottom with fifty fathoms; they do not appear to have a lagoon-like structure. There are similar c... |
in lat. 4° 55' there are two, which are engraved from modern surveys, in a manner which might represent an annular reef with deep water inside: Capt. Moresby, however, who was formerly in this sea, doubts this fact, so that I have left them uncoloured: at the same time I may remark, that these two shoals make a nearer ... |
to the atoll-like structure than any other within the E. Indian arch. Southward of these shoals there are other low islands and irregular coral-reefs; and in the space of sea, north of the great volcanic chain, from Timor to Java, we have also other islands, such as the Postillions, Kalatoa, Tokan-Bessees, &c., which a... |
very irregular and distant reefs. From the imperfect charts I have seen, I have not been able to decide whether they belong to the atoll or barrier-classes, or whether they merely fringe submarine banks, and gently sloping land. In the Bay of Bonin, between the two southern arms of Celebes, there are numerous coral-ree... |
have an atoll-like structure. I have, therefore, not coloured any of the islands in this part of the sea; I think it, however, exceedingly probable that some of them ought to be blue. I may add that there is a harbour on the S.E. coast of Bouton, which, according to an old chart, is formed by a reef, parallel to |
the shore, with deep water within; and in the voyage of the Coquille, some neighbouring islands are represented with reefs a good way distant, but I do not know whether with deep water within. I have not thought the evidence sufficient to permit me to colour them. SUMATRA.—Commencing with the west coast and outlying is... |
the published chart as surrounded by a narrow reef, and Napier, in his sailing directions, speaks of the reef being of coral (also Horsburgh, vol. ii. p. 115); coloured red. Rat Isld. 3° 51' S. is surrounded by reefs of coral, partly dry at low water (Horsburgh, vol. ii. p. 96).—Trieste Isld. (4° 2' S.) The shore is re... |
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