Permitted Mooring Sites In Chagos: Revised March 2007

Created by doina. Last modified on 2007-03-28 11:00:33
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Countries: Chagos

Mooring Sites: Latitude/Longitude references

updated by BIOT March 2007

It should be noted:

(1) These anchoring areas must be routinely used. However, in cases of emergency or when action is needed to prevent accidents, yachts may anchor wherever necessary to ensure safety.

(2) At their landward side in all zones, the seabed rises very rapidly to shallows from depths of as deep as 15 or even 20+ metres.

(3) Within all anchoring zones there are shallow patches, and the designation of a zone does not imply that the zone is always safe or is safe in all conditions.

All coordinates are in dd.mm.mm and all are deg S, deg E. Co-ordinates mark the ends of lines drawn along or roughly parallel to islands, and the zones permitted for anchoring lie between each line and its adjacent Island.

Salomon Atoll

Ile Boddam

Southwest of a line between Iles Diable and Poule

W (Diable) 5°21.05 S 72° 12.51 E ; E (Poule) 5° 21.45 S 72° 13.17 E

Ile Fouquet/Takamaka

Southeast of a line from mid Takamaka to the SE tip of Fouquet

N (Takamaka) 5° 19.73 S 72° 15.94 E ; S (Fouquet) 5° 20.64 S 72° 15.40 E

Peros Banhos atoll

Diamant

Northwest of a line stretching roughly the full length of Diamant

N (Diamante) 5° 15.17 S 71° 46.63 E ; S (Diamante) 5° 15.94 S 71° 45.56 E

Ile de Coin

Southwest of a line from mid Anglais to two-thirds down Poule

N (Anglais) 5° 26.30 S 71° 45.52 E; Mid (Poule) 5° 26.67 S 71° 45.76 E ; S (Poule) 5° 26.87 S 71° 46.46 E

Fouquet

South of a line from mid Mapou du Coin to east end of Fouquet

Outer W 5° 27.60 S 71° 47.79 E ; Outer E 5° 27.40 S 71° 48.75 E

A BIOT map of permitted sites can be found here