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Cairns pilotage area

The Cairns pilotage area is the area of:

(a)  waters bounded by an imaginary line drawn:

  • starting at the high water mark on the north-western extremity of Cape Grafton
  • then due north for two nautical miles
  • then across to the high water mark on the northern extremity of Taylor Point
  • then by the high water mark in a southerly 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).

Cairns pilotage/compulsory pilotage area chartlet.

Last reviewed: 08 February 2012