APPROACHES TO LACAM-4013

Peel Island (Ta-Erema), low and fringed with mangroves, is separated from Nicholson Island W by a channel, about 1/2  mile wide, which is suitable for boats, but local knowledge is necessary. A narrow channel, much encumbered with rocks, separates Peel Island from Wilson Island N.
Havelock Island, the largest of Ritchies Archipelago, lies 1/2 mile S of Peel Island from which it is separated by Tadma Jura. There is a L-shapped jetty with a dolphin close SE of its head, situated at Jetty Point, the NE extremity of the island 11cables SE of Stowe Point; there is a depth of 5.2 m at its head.
Tadma Juru (12° 02' N, 92° 59' E), the narrow channel between Peel and Havelock Islands, has depths 10.6m to 24m in the fairway.
Rosamund Shoal, a narrow ridge of coral heads, nearly awash and steep-to on its N side lies with its S end 1/2 mile N of Stowe Point, the S entrance point of Tadrna Juru. The shoal is difficult to distinguish and the narrow channel between it and Peel lsland should not be attempted. Passage of Tadma Juru may be made in either direction, but local knowledge is necessary.
Stowe Point (12° 03'N, 92° 58'E),marked by a light- beacon, is the N point of Havelock Island; Yulutang, a conspicuous hill 167 m high, stands 21/2 miles SE of the point.
Anchorage: Good anchorage is obtained off Jalebar, 21/4 miles SSW of Stowe Point.
Melville (Doone) Point, 4 miles SW of Stowe Point, is the W point of Havelock Island.
Havelock, 11/4 miles SE of Melville Point, is a conspicuous hill, 164 m high, at the W end of a bay.
Tadma Bay is entered between Runnymede Point (12° 03' N, 93° 03' E), the S point of John Lawrence Island and the S point of Peel Island, 23/4 miles W. The bay affords good anchorage sheltered from NE.
Paranga Juru, a narrow channel separating John Lawrence and Peel Islands, is entered from S through Tadma Bay which also forms the E entrance to Tadma Juru.
Pilot Reef, a 3 m patch, lies 1 mile S of Runnymede Point; a narrow coral ridge with depths less than 9.1 m extends 1 mile S from Pilot Reef.
The E side of Havelock Island is fringed by a reef from the N part of which foul ground extends up to 2 miles E to within a short distance of the ridge extending S from Pilot Reef.