Beveridge Reef Explained

Beveridge Reef
Location:	Exclusion Zone 5
Total Islands:	1
Country:	Niue

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

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

• Niue Nukutuluea

External links

• Beveridge Reef by Wolfgang Schippke
• Geography and geology of Niue
• Exploring new frontiers off Niue, Skin Diver Online

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Notes and References

1. Book: South Pacific Commission. The South Pacific Commission Fisheries Newsletter. 1992.
2. Book: John Robert Victor Prescott. Grant Boyes. Undelimited Maritime Boundaries in the Pacific Ocean Excluding the Asian Rim. 2000. IBRU. 978-1-897643-39-6. 14–.
3. Web site: National Geographic Society Newsroom. https://web.archive.org/web/20161007194812/http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2016/10/06/beveridge-reef-from-shallow-seas-to-darker-depths/. dead. October 7, 2016.
4. Book: A. G. Findlay. 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. 28 March 2013. Cambridge University Press. 978-1-108-05973-2. 805.
5. Book: P. J. Dalzell. G. L. Preston. SPC Fisheries Programme. 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. 1992. South Pacific Commission.
6. Book: In the Strange South Seas. 183 . Beveridge Reef wreck. . Hutchinson & Company . Grimshaw. Beatrice Ethel. 1907.
7. Web site: The Seamen's Journal. 1919.
8. Book: Miles Hordern. Sailing the Pacific: A Voyage Across the Longest Stretch of Water on Earth, and a Journey into Its Past. 20 May 2014. St. Martin's Press. 978-1-4668-7196-0. 247.
9. Book: Ocean Yearbook. 9780226066141. 1994. Borgese. Elisabeth Mann. Ginsburg. Norton Sydney. University of Chicago Press .
10. Web site: British family of four rescued from remote reef in Pacific Ocean. TheGuardian.com. 28 August 2017.
11. News: Reef was complete surprise, says Pacific shipwreck father Bobby Cooper. Adams. Bernard Lagan.