Section 16 Cairns pilotage area
Transport Operations (Marine Safety) Regulation 2016
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 in a northerly direction to latitude 16° 49.874' south, longitude 145° 54.954' east
• then in a west-north-westerly direction 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 to the starting point; and
(b) the navigable waters of rivers and creeks flowing, directly or indirectly, into the waters mentioned in paragraph (a).