Beveridge Reef

{{Short description|Atoll in Niue}} {{Infobox islands | name = Beveridge Reef | native_name = | image_name = Beveridge Reef 772478587 171566a66d o.jpg | image_caption = Looking north across the lagoon | native_name_link = | nickname = | location = Exclusion Zone 5 | coordinates =  | archipelago = | total_islands = 1 | area_sqmi = | length_mi = | width_km = | highest_mount = | elevation_ft = | country = Niue | country_admin_divisions_title = | country_admin_divisions = | additional_info = | website =  }} '''Beveridge Reef''' (Niuean: ''Nukutulueatama'') is a mostly submerged, unpopulated atoll located in the Exclusive Economic Zone of Niue. It has been the cause of several fishing boats running aground or sinking.

==Characteristics== thumb|upright|Beveridge Reef seen from space

The Beveridge Reef is a coral atoll that is approximately 147 miles (237 km) from Niue and 520 miles (840 km) from the Cook Islands.<ref name="Commission1992">{{cite book | author=South Pacific Commission| title=The South Pacific Commission Fisheries Newsletter| url= https://books.google.com/books?id=jlM5AQAAIAAJ| year=1992}}</ref><ref name="PrescottBoyes2000">{{cite book | author1=John Robert Victor Prescott| author2=Grant Boyes| title=Undelimited Maritime Boundaries in the Pacific Ocean Excluding the Asian Rim| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PtEL8X6nu1gC&pg=PA14| year=2000| publisher=IBRU| isbn=978-1-897643-39-6| pages=14–}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | url=http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2016/10/06/beveridge-reef-from-shallow-seas-to-darker-depths/| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161007194812/http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2016/10/06/beveridge-reef-from-shallow-seas-to-darker-depths/| url-status=dead| archive-date=October 7, 2016| title = National Geographic Society Newsroom}}</ref> The reef is normally submerged,<ref name="Findlay2013">{{cite book | author=A. G. Findlay| title=A Directory for the Navigation of the Pacific Ocean, with Descriptions of Its Coasts, Islands, Etc.: From the Strait of Magalhaens to the Arctic Sea, and Those of Asia and Australia| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=otcNIdaF710C&pg=PA805| date=28 March 2013| publisher=Cambridge University Press| isbn=978-1-108-05973-2| pages=805}}</ref> with a small part visible at low tide.<ref name="Commission1992"/><ref name="DalzellPreston1992">{{cite book | author1=P. J. Dalzell| author2=G. L. Preston| author3=SPC Fisheries Programme| title=Deep Reef Slope Fishery Resources of the South Pacific : a summary and analysis of the dropline fishing survey data generated by the activities of the SPC Fisheries Programme between 1974 and 1988| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kULxAAAAMAAJ| year=1992| publisher=South Pacific Commission}}</ref>

==Wrecks== The reef is the site of frequent shipwrecks:<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/instrangesouths01grimgoog | page=[https://archive.org/details/instrangesouths01grimgoog/page/n241 183] | quote=Beveridge Reef wreck. |title = In the Strange South Seas| publisher=Hutchinson & Company |last1 = Grimshaw|first1 = Beatrice Ethel|year = 1907}}</ref> *in 1918, the schooner James H. Bruce,<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xDwtAQAAMAAJ&q=Beveridge+Reef+wreck&pg=PA409 |title = The Seamen's Journal|year = 1919}}</ref> *the ''Nicky Lou'' of Seattle, a fiberglass hulled fishing vessel that ran aground on the reef, can be seen on the reef.<ref name="Hordern2014">{{cite book | author=Miles Hordern| title=Sailing the Pacific: A Voyage Across the Longest Stretch of Water on Earth, and a Journey into Its Past| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LyE4AwAAQBAJ&pg=PT247| date=20 May 2014| publisher=St. Martin's Press| isbn=978-1-4668-7196-0| pages=247}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8d4QAQAAIAAJ&q=Beveridge+Reef+Nicky+Lou |title = Ocean Yearbook|isbn = 9780226066141| year = 1994| last1 = Borgese| first1 = Elisabeth Mann| last2 = Ginsburg| first2 = Norton Sydney| publisher=University of Chicago Press }}</ref> *in 2017, the catamaran Avanti.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/aug/28/british-family-of-four-rescued-from-remote-reef-in-pacific-ocean| title = British family of four rescued from remote reef in Pacific Ocean|website = TheGuardian.com|date = 28 August 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/article/reef-was-complete-surprise-says-pacific-shipwreck-father-bobby-cooper-catamaran-avanti-wrecked-off-beveridge-reef-near-niue-bp3f27z6k| title=Reef was complete surprise, says Pacific shipwreck father Bobby Cooper| last1=Adams| first1=Bernard Lagan}}</ref>

==See also== * Niue Nukutuluea

== References == {{reflist|30 em}}

== External links == * [https://web.archive.org/web/20070701000432/http://www.425dxn.org/dc3mf/berver_e.html Beveridge Reef by Wolfgang Schippke] * [http://www.seafriends.org.nz/niue/geo.htm Geography and geology of Niue] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20101229220429/http://www.skin-diver.com/departments/DiveTheWorld/SouthEastPacific/Fiji/NewfrontiersoffNiue.asp?theID=862 ''Exploring new frontiers off Niue'', Skin Diver Online]

Category:Former islands Category:Landforms of Niue Category:Reefs of the Pacific Ocean Category:Reefs of Oceania