AUS 293
Prince Of Wales Channel
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Description
This official Nautical Chart is produced by the Australian Hydrographic Office, and corrected fortnightly to 'Notice to Marines' by Cairns Charts & Maps. This ensures it remains compliance with Safety of Navigation requirements. This marine chart, or 'sea map', is primarily produced to support the safe navigation of commercial shipping through Australian, Papua New Guinea and Solomon Island waters.
Nautical charts depict the seabed, or bathymetry, using a variety of colours to shade the depth regions. Darker blues indicate shallower water, while light blues and white indicate deeper water. A chart will also show continuous contour lines (at varying intervals depending on the scale of the chart), 'spot depths' across the whole area, as well as different symbols indicating wrecks, shallow rocks and dangers, as well as details on lights, light houses, tides and currents.
For extensive detail on the symbology of nautical charts, the Symbols and Abbreviations used on Admiralty Charts is the definitive reference.
Thursday Island Wasaga Rose Hill Alert Rocks Alert Patches Aplin Pass Battery Point Beresford Shoals Black Rock Bourne Rock Brewster Reef Brisbane Rock Cardale Patch Channel Rock Chapman Reef Dayman Channel Devonshire Rock Duff Rock East Strait Island Edwards Rock Ellis Channel Flinders Passage Friday Island Friday Passage Gerard Bank Ghibber Rock Goods Island Green Hill Greenant Hill Hammond Island Hammond Rock Harrison Rock Heath Point Herald Patches Hood Bank Horn Island Horned Hill Horned Point Hovell Rock Ince Point Ipili Reef Kapuda Islet King Point Kunai Islet Madge Reef Marie Rock Marina Rock Mecca Reef Menmuir Point Milman Hill Muralug Nardana Patches Nereid Rocks Normanby Sound North Torres Reef North West Reef Papou Point Pearl Rock Peile Reef Pilot Knoll Pott Point Prince of Wales Channel Pullar Patches Pullar Rock Quoin Point Race Rock Reeves Shoal Round Island Shadwell Point Simpson Channel Smith Point Smyth Creek South Torres Reef Spring Creek Strait Rock Sunk Reefs Tamwoy Tessy Head Torres Tucker Point Tuesday Islets Twin Island Vivien Point Wai-Weer Islet Webb Point Wednesday Island Wednesday Spit West Wai Weer Reef Yule Channel Round Island Conservation Park Double Hill Bruce Point Scott Rock Torres Strait Beresford Shoal Double Island Nelgee Island Alert Rock Torres Strait Islands Hood Reef Turtle Head Aade Reeves Shoals Maururra Hammond Islands Keriri Number Two Islet No 2 Islet Number Three Islet No 3 Islet Flinders Pass Number One Islet No 1 Islet Number Four Islet No 4 Islet Hester Hill Pig Hill Goode Island Palilug Diamond Point Bertie Bay Wanetta Powell Point Hovell Bar West Wai-Weer Reef Kate Point Wai-ben Normandy Sound Kunai Island Wilkie Bank Port Kennedy Thursday Island Harbour Normanby Sound Ledge Kiwain Point Madge Reefs Holmes Reef Narupai The Gut Bogan Banks Bold Hill