Pocklington Reef

Pocklington Reef
	ISS image of Pocklington Reef
	Pocklington Reef
Geography
Location	Solomon Sea
Coordinates	10°48′44″S 155°44′18″E / 10.81222°S 155.73833°E
Type	Reef
Archipelago	Louisiade Archipelago
Adjacent to	Solomon Sea
Total islands	2 inhabited on Bentley Group
Major islands	North islet;
Area	0.01 km2 (0.0039 sq mi)
Highest elevation	1 m (3 ft)
Administration
	Papua New Guinea
Province	Milne Bay
District	Samarai-Murua District
LLG	Yaleyamba Rural Local Level Government Area
Demographics
Population	0 (2014)
Pop. density	0/km2 (0/sq mi)
Additional information
Time zone	AEST (UTC+10);
ISO code	PG-MBA
Official website	www.ncdc.gov.pg

Pocklington Reef is a coral reef and a mostly submerged atoll in the far southeast of Papua 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 of Rossel Island (Yela) in the Louisiade Archipelago, and belongs to Milne Bay province, Samarai-Murua District, Yaleyamba Rural Local Level Government Area.

Pocklington Reef sits on top of Pocklington Ridge, which extends north-east from Rossel Island. The reef is 32 km long and up to 4 km wide. Its longer axis is north-east-south-west. 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 metres high lie along its length. There is a small spit of sand about the size of a football field (less than one hectare) at the north-east end.

Shipwreck

There is a shipwreck at that location.^[2]

On 28 April 1962, Panamanian SS Dona Ourania^[3] grounded on Pocklington Reef.^[4]

Marine protected area

Pocklington Reef Marine Park is a proposed marine protected area.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b Pocklington Reef Wood, L. J. (2007). MPA Global: A database of the world's marine protected areas. Sea Around Us Project, UNEP-WCMC & WWF. www.mpaglobal.org
^ Catalog of Nautical Charts.
^ Dona Ourania Wear Built Ships
^ Gerald Forsberg Salvage from the Sea Publisher: Routledge and Kegan Paul, Jan 1, 1977

External links

Satellite image at the Wayback Machine (archived December 23, 2010)
Maritime boundaries
Papua New Guinea Act

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[mpa-1] Pocklington Reef Wood, L. J. (2007). MPA Global: A database of the world's marine protected areas. Sea Around Us Project, UNEP-WCMC & WWF. www.mpaglobal.org

[2] Catalog of Nautical Charts.

[3] Dona Ourania Wear Built Ships

[4] Gerald Forsberg Salvage from the Sea Publisher: Routledge and Kegan Paul, Jan 1, 1977

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