Beveridge Reef
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 Interactive map of Beveridge Reef | |
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| Location | Exclusion Zone 5 |
| Total islands | 1 |
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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.
Characteristics
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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
[edit]The reef is the site of atleast 6 shipwrecks:[6]
- Legerdemain (UK), a Barque wrecked on the North East side of the reef in 1852[7]
- James H. Bruce (USA), a Schooner wrecked on the North East side of the reef in 1918[8][9]
- Nicky Lou (USA), a Large Fishing Trawler wrecked on the East side of the reef in 1992[10]
- Liberty (NZ), a Small Fishing Vessel wrecked inside the Lagoon on the East Side in 2007[11]
- Avanti (BVI), a Catamaran Wrecked beside the Liberty on the East side of the Lagoon in 2017[12]
- Chuan I Shin (TWN), a Large Long Liner Fishing Trawler wreck on the South end of the reef in 2022[13]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- 1 2 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". Archived from the original on October 7, 2016.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "Papers Past". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. Retrieved 2026-08-12.
- ↑ "Newspaper".
- ↑ The Seamen's Journal. Sailors' Union of the Pacific. 1919.
- ↑ Borgese, Elisabeth Mann; Ginsburg, Norton Sydney (September 1990). Ocean Yearbook. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-06611-0.
- ↑ Sv-footprint (2017-09-05). "SV Footprint (Begonia): Beveridge Reef (Niue)". SV Footprint (Begonia). Retrieved 2026-08-12.
- ↑ Haro, Alexander (2017-08-28). "Family Crashes Vessel on Beveridge Reef". The Inertia. Retrieved 2026-08-12.
- ↑ Aotearoa, RNZ | Te Reo Irirangi o (2024-10-10). "Manawanui surveyed wreck of 'suspicious' Taiwanese fishing vessel in Niue". RNZ. Retrieved 2026-08-12.
External links
[edit]- Beveridge Reef by Wolfgang Schippke
- Geography and geology of Niue
- Exploring new frontiers off Niue, Skin Diver Online
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