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Bowen pilotage area

The Bowen pilotage area is the area of 
(a)  waters bounded by an imaginary line drawn: 

  • starting at the high water mark on the southern extremity of Dalrymple Point
  • then 286º(T) by a straight line to the port entrance beacon to Bowen Boat Harbour (20º 01.34' south, 148º 15.39' east) 
  • then 303º(T) by a straight line to the intersection of the high water mark and the northern edge of the wharf at Bowen (20º 01.05' south, 148º 14.91' east)
  • then by the high water mark in an easterly direction along the shoreline of the mainland returning to the starting point; and
(b) the navigable waters of rivers and creeks flowing, directly or indirectly, into the waters in paragraph (a).

Bowen pilotage/compulsory pilotage area chartlet.

Last reviewed: 08 February 2012