Hallie Jackson Reef
The Hallie Jackson Reef , engl. Hallie Jackson Reef , other name: Hallie Jackson Shoal , is a shoal near the islands of the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific , with the specified position 9 ° 44 ′ 0 ″ S , 166 ° 7 ′ 0 ″ E, . Geographically, the sea area belongs to the Duff Islands .
The "Pacific Islands Pilot" from 1920, the sea manual of the Pacific Islands of the United States Hydrographic Office , writes under the heading: "Doubtful Shallows":
"Hallie Jackson Shoal is four fathoms (7.3 m) or less below the surface of the water and is mapped at 9 ° 53 'south latitude and 166 ° 3½" east longitude, 25 nautical miles (41 km) west of Treasurers Island (Lakao) , on the edge of the Duff Islands. [The shoal] was first recorded in 1877 and is said to stretch for 3 miles from north to south. "
The underwater formation is named after the American brigantine Hallie Jackson under Captain Fuller, who was involved in the Pacific trade in the second half of the 19th century.
In 1961, Royal Air Force reconnaissance aircraft flew over the Pacific region belonging to the Solomon Islands and Santa Cruz Islands as part of "Operation Bafford" in order to update and complete the existing nautical charts. In the area of the sea in which the Hallie Jackson Reef was supposed to be located, no formations above or below the sea could be seen.
In the Operational Navigation Chart ONC N-16 from 1972, the Hallie Jackson Reef is still shown, in the "Sailing Directions" of the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency of the USA from 2013 it is no longer mentioned.
Individual evidence
- ^ Pacific Islands Pilot, United States Hydrographic Office, Vol 1, 1920, Washington United States Government Printing Office , Washington 1920, p. 331
- ↑ Flight Lieutenant AL Sebright: South Pacific Survey Operation “Bafford” . In: Royal United Services Institution. Journal, Vol. 107 (628), 1962, pp. 333-337