- Pocklington Reef
Pocklington Reef is a
coral reef and a mostly submergedatoll in the far southeast ofPapua New Guinea .It is 162.4 km from the closest island, Loa Boloba, which is a tiny coral islet within the fringing reef near
Cape Deliverance , the south east point ofRossel Island (Yela) in theLouisiade Archipelago , and belongs toMilne Bay province,Samarai-Murua District , Louisiade Rural Local Level Government Area.Pocklington Reef sits on top of Pocklington Ridge, which extends northeast from Rossel Island. The reef is 32 km long and up to 4 km wide. Its longer axis is northeast-southwest. The rim of the reef encloses a deep
lagoon . The northern rim reaches closer to the surface, and several above water rocks with heights between 0.9 and 3 meters high lie along its length. There is a small spit of sand about the size of a football field at the northeast end. There is ashipwreck at that location. [http://permanent.access.gpo.gov/websites/pollux/pollux.nss.nima.mil/NAV_PUBS/SD/pub164/164sec08.pdf]On 28 April 1962, Panamanian SS Dona Ourania grounded on Pocklington Reef. [http://books.google.com/books?id=tpo9AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA40&lpg=PA40&dq=%22Pocklington+Reef%22&source=web&ots=_dWQuJkqs4&sig=bvxhGPmAA-Qh0Hows-7WMzAFt6g&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=37&ct=result]
Pocklington Reef Marine Park is a proposed
marine protected area . [http://www.mpaglobal.org/index.php?action=showMain&site_code=15924]References
External links
* [http://www.oceandots.com/pacific/png/pocklington.htm Satellite image]
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=zOoADxl4YToC&pg=PA84&lpg=PA84&dq=%22Pocklington+Reef%22&source=web&ots=YjZq13PBcr&sig=FTNL3bIRlA86SwP7y3oGOnJJlFU&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=16&ct=result#PPA84,M1 Maritime boundaries]
* [http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/num_act/pnga1975161/s3.html Papua New Guinea Act]
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