Beveridge Reef

Beveridge Reef (Niuean: Nukutulueatama) is a mostly submerged, unpopulated atoll located in the Exclusive Economic Zone of Niue. It has been the cause of several fishing boats running aground or sinking.

Beveridge Reef
Looking north across the lagoon
Geography
LocationExclusion Zone 5
Total islands1
Administration

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.[1][2][3] The reef is normally submerged,[4] with a small part visible at 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

References
  1. South Pacific Commission (1992). The South Pacific Commission Fisheries Newsletter.
  2. John Robert Victor Prescott; Grant Boyes (2000). Undelimited Maritime Boundaries in the Pacific Ocean Excluding the Asian Rim. IBRU. pp. 14–. ISBN 978-1-897643-39-6.
  3. "National Geographic Society Newsroom".
  4. A. G. Findlay (28 March 2013). A Directory for the Navigation of the Pacific Ocean, with Descriptions of Its Coasts, Islands, Etc.: From the Strait of Magalhaens to the Arctic Sea, and Those of Asia and Australia. Cambridge University Press. p. 805. ISBN 978-1-108-05973-2.
  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. Miles Hordern (20 May 2014). Sailing the Pacific: A Voyage Across the Longest Stretch of Water on Earth, and a Journey into Its Past. St. Martin's Press. p. 247. ISBN 978-1-4668-7196-0.
  9. Borgese, Elisabeth Mann; Ginsburg, Norton Sydney (1994). Ocean Yearbook. ISBN 9780226066141.
  10. "British family of four rescued from remote reef in Pacific Ocean". TheGuardian.com. 28 August 2017.
  11. Adams, Bernard Lagan. "Reef was complete surprise, says Pacific shipwreck father Bobby Cooper".

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