Section 10 Whitsundays pilotage area
Transport Operations (Marine Safety) Regulation 2016
The Whitsundays pilotage area is the area of—
(a) waters bounded by an imaginary line drawn—
• starting at the high-water mark at the northern tip of George Point on the mainland
• then in an east-north-easterly direction to latitude 20º 01.189' south, longitude 148º 52.840' east
• then in an east-south-easterly direction to latitude 20º 02.939' south, longitude 148º 58.630' east
• then in a south-easterly direction to the high-water mark at the north-eastern tip of Deloraine Island
• then along the high-water mark of the eastern shoreline of Deloraine Island to its south-eastern tip
• then in a south-easterly direction to the high-water mark at the northern tip of Harold Island
• then along the high-water mark of the eastern shoreline of Harold Island to its southern tip
• then in a south-south-westerly direction to the high-water mark at the northern tip of Jesuit Point on Maher Island
• then along the high-water mark of the western shoreline of Maher Island to its southern tip
• then to the high-water mark at the northern tip of Shaw Island
• then along the high-water mark of the western shoreline of Shaw Island to its south-western tip
• then in a west-south-westerly direction to the southern tip of Cape Conway on the mainland
• then by the high-water mark, initially in a general north-westerly direction, to the starting point; and
(b) the navigable waters of rivers and creeks flowing, directly or indirectly, into the waters mentioned in paragraph (a).