AUS 21
Melville Island Snake Bay
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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.
Milikapiti Snake Bay Brown Point Cape Lavery Curtis Haven Don Point Goose Creek Ironstone Head Johnson Point Karslake Island Laxton Reef Little Ginger Maxwell Creek Milikapiti Milikapiti Community Library Milikapiti Health Centre Milikapiti Hill Milikapiti Police Station Milikapiti Pre School Milikapiti Primary School Mudlow Creek Paddy Patches Point Strath Purumpenelli Point Saunders Patch Shark Bay Snake Bay Snake Bay Aerodrome Snake Bay Barge Landing Strath Sands Wal-e-ga Point West Point Cook Reef Purumpinelli Point Woolrungku Palawaeunga Bay Gribbles Settlement Gribble Settlement Gwyneth Point Johnsons Point