Beveridge Reef

Beveridge Reef seen from space.

looking north across lagoon, from position after entrance

Beveridge Reef is a submerged atoll located in the Exclusive Economic Zone of Niue, approximately 130 miles (209 km) from Niue and 600 miles (966 km) from the Cook Islands.^[1]^[2]^[3] The reef is normally submerged,^[4] with a small part visible at low tide.^[1]^[5] It has been the cause of several fishing boats running aground.

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, and^[8]^[9]
in 2017, the catamaran Avanti.^[10]^[11]

References[]

^ ^a ^b South Pacific Commission (1992). The South Pacific Commission Fisheries Newsletter.
^ 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.
^ "National Geographic Society Newsroom".
^ 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. pp. 805–. ISBN 978-1-108-05973-2.
^ 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.
^ Grimshaw, Beatrice Ethel (1907). In the Strange South Seas. Hutchinson & Company. p. 183. Beveridge Reef wreck.
^ "The Seamen's Journal". 1919.
^ 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. pp. 247–. ISBN 978-1-4668-7196-0.
^ Borgese, Elisabeth Mann; Ginsburg, Norton Sydney (1994). Ocean Yearbook. ISBN 9780226066141.
^ "British family of four rescued from remote reef in Pacific Ocean". 28 August 2017.
^ Adams, Bernard Lagan. "Reef was complete surprise, says Pacific shipwreck father Bobby Cooper".

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Coordinates: 20°00′S 167°48′W / 20.000°S 167.800°W / -20.000; -167.800

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[Commission1992-1] South Pacific Commission (1992). The South Pacific Commission Fisheries Newsletter.

[PrescottBoyes2000-2] 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".

[Findlay2013-4] 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. pp. 805–. ISBN 978-1-108-05973-2.

[DalzellPreston1992-5] 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.

[Hordern2014-8] 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. pp. 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". 28 August 2017.

[11] Adams, Bernard Lagan. "Reef was complete surprise, says Pacific shipwreck father Bobby Cooper".

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