. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology; Zoology. 24 BULLETIN: MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. Makongai is edged with a fringing reef. The islands in the Makongai lagoon are in the northeast corner close to the'Eastern face of the outer reef. The lagoon has a general depth of from thirteen to seventeen fathoms, with a greatest depth of twenty-one fathoms in the northern part. The southern part of the lagoon is full of coral patches, remnants of islands and islets similar to those of the small island of Tambaka, still connected with Makongai by a neck of bould
. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology; Zoology. 24 BULLETIN: MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. Makongai is edged with a fringing reef. The islands in the Makongai lagoon are in the northeast corner close to the'Eastern face of the outer reef. The lagoon has a general depth of from thirteen to seventeen fathoms, with a greatest depth of twenty-one fathoms in the northern part. The southern part of the lagoon is full of coral patches, remnants of islands and islets similar to those of the small island of Tambaka, still connected with Makongai by a neck of boulders, which reaches to the westward as an extensive flat, and fringed below low water mark with flourishing patches of corals. Such a patch with a few angular blocks. LtDGE OFF still visible above high water mark, lies off the southwest point of Makondranga, and many others off the southeastern face of Makongai. Corals within the lagoon grow in from seven to one or two fathoms. The rest of the bottom of the lagoon consists of coral and coralline sand. I^Iakongai and "Wakaya are connected by a narrow reef ridge about a mile in lengtli. The island of Wakaya is nine miles long, triangular in shape, tapering to a point, and situated close to the western edge of the outer reef of the kgoon. A fringing reef edges its eastern ftxce, while the extension of the outer reef forms the wider fringing reef of the western shore. Towards the south this part of the fringing reef encloses two secondary lagoons, one of which has a depth of five fathoms. The southern part of the outer reef is contiruous ; the northeastern face is broken by several passages, and there are three to the north of Wakaya on the western face. The highest point of Wakaya is nearly GOO feet, forming a range of steep bluffs along the northern part of the island, which slopes very gi-adually to the east. The southern ]>art of tlic island. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page ima
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