Beveridge Reef

Coordinates: 20°00′S 167°48′W / 20.000°S 167.800°W / -20.000; -167.800
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Beveridge Reef
Exclusion Zone 5
Total islands1
Administration

Beveridge Reef (

Exclusive Economic Zone of Niue
. It has been the cause of several fishing boats running aground or sinking.

Characteristics

Beveridge Reef seen from space

The Beveridge Reef is a coral atoll that is approximately 147 miles (237 km) from Niue and 520 miles (840 km) from the Cook Islands.

low tide.[1][5]

Wrecks

The reef is the site of frequent shipwrecks:[6]

  • in 1918, the schooner James H. Bruce, [7]
  • the Nicky Lou of Seattle, a fiberglass hulled fishing vessel that ran aground on the reef, can be seen on the reef.[8][9]
  • in 2017, the catamaran Avanti.[10][11]

See also

  • Niue Nukutuluea

References

  1. ^ a b South Pacific Commission (1992). The South Pacific Commission Fisheries Newsletter.
  2. ISBN 978-1-897643-39-6
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  3. ^ "National Geographic Society Newsroom". Archived from the original on October 7, 2016.
  4. ISBN 978-1-108-05973-2
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  5. ^ P. J. Dalzell; G. L. Preston; SPC Fisheries Programme (1992). Deep Reef Slope Fishery Resources of the South Pacific : a summary and analysis of the dropline fishing survey data generated by the activities of the SPC Fisheries Programme between 1974 and 1988. South Pacific Commission.
  6. ^ Grimshaw, Beatrice Ethel (1907). In the Strange South Seas. Hutchinson & Company. p. 183. Beveridge Reef wreck.
  7. ^ "The Seamen's Journal". 1919.
  8. ISBN 978-1-4668-7196-0
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  9. ISBN 9780226066141
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  10. TheGuardian.com
    . 28 August 2017.
  11. ^ Adams, Bernard Lagan. "Reef was complete surprise, says Pacific shipwreck father Bobby Cooper".

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