Roncador Reef

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The Roncador Reef is an atoll coral reef -like in the province of Malaita, Solomon Islands. It is located 75 km south of the atoll Ontong Java, the nearest land mass, and 158 km north of the island of Santa Isabel. The Riffkranz is 14.4 km long and 10.6 km wide maximum, corresponding to a total area of ​​approximately 120 km ². The ring-shaped reef is average 600 meters wide at the narrowest point in the south and 250 meters at its widest in the north about 940 meters.

The lagoon 27 to 36 feet deep. Ships to pass and anchored by two 200 -meter-wide openings in the south of the reef into the lagoon. On the west side of the reef several boulders protrude above water. However, these are not islands; the reef has no islands. The northernmost of these boulders protruding three feet from the water, and three miles south of 1.8 m. Between the reef along the entire length falls dry. There is strong surf on the east side of the reef. The reef is regarded by the chiefs of Ontong Java as property.

Adam Johann von Krusenstern reported in 1819, Alvaro de Mendaña de Neyra and Francisco Antonio Mourelle had independently discovered in the 16th or 18th century, the reef, the former being the name Baxo de Candelaria, the latter Spanish Roncador is today used ( him snore ' have given ). Krusenstern attested to the reef a length of 45 miles from northeast to southwest ..

Through the story, The pearl divers of Roncador Reef Australian author George Lewis Becke (1855-1913), the reef was literary.