Beveridge Reef
Appearance
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.
Elsdon Best reported that "according to native tradition at Rarotonga, the Beveridge Reef was once a fine isle, with many coconut-palms growing thereon, but that it was swept bare by a fierce hurricane, which carried away both trees and soil, leaving nothing but the bare rock."[6]
Wrecks
The reef is the site of frequent shipwrecks:[7]
- in 1918, the schooner James H. Bruce, [8]
- the Nicky Lou of Seattle, a fiberglass hulled fishing vessel that ran aground on the reef, can be seen on the reef, and[9][10]
- in 2017, the catamaran Avanti.[11][12]
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.
- ^ http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2016/10/06/beveridge-reef-from-shallow-seas-to-darker-depths/
- ^ 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.
- ^ Best, Elsdon (1922). Some aspects of Maori myth and religion. W.A.G. Skinner. p. 10. Retrieved 2011-10-11.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Ocean Yearbook. 1994. ISBN 9780226066141.
- ^ https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/aug/28/british-family-of-four-rescued-from-remote-reef-in-pacific-ocean
- ^ https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/reef-was-complete-surprise-says-pacific-shipwreck-father-bobby-cooper-catamaran-avanti-wrecked-off-beveridge-reef-near-niue-bp3f27z6k