- Carondelet Reef
Carondelet Reef is a horseshoe-shaped
reef of thePhoenix Islands , also known as the Rawaki Islands, in the Republic ofKiribati . It is located 106 km southeast ofNikumaroro , at coord|05|34|S|173|51|W|, and has a least depth of 1.8 meters. It is reported to be approximately 1.5 km in length. [cite web
title=Islands of Kiribati
author=Mike Pearson
coauthors=Jonathan Willis-Richards
url=http://www.wysiwyg.co.nz/kiribati/islands.html
accessdate=2007-02-21] The sea occasionally breaks over it.History and name
Carondelet Reef was named after the vessel which reported it, which was not the USS Carondelet. It had been previously referred to as Carondelet reef before the USS Carondelet was named and commissioned, as mentioned in a report of the air search for
Amelia Earhart dated16 July 1937 . [cite web
author=John Lambrecht
title=Lt. John Lambrecht’s Report on the Search of the Phoenix Islands
url=http://www.tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Documents/Lambrecht's_Report.html
work=The Earhart Project
publisher=TIGHAR
date=1937-07-16
accessdate=2007-02-21]The multiple positions of
Winslow Reef , mentioned byRobert Louis Stevenson , may have been due to confusing the position of Carondelet Reef withWinslow Reef .References
External links
* [http://phoenixislands.org Phoenix Islands Protected Area, Kiribati]
* [http://oceandots.com/pacific/rawaki Oceandots]
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