Wrongly Charted
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Vanikoro Island Reported To Be Wrongly Charted
THE High Commissioner for the West ern Pacific recently directed attention in the official Gazette to reports from two different sources alleging that an error had been made in the charted posi tion of Vanikoro Island in the Santa Cruz District of the Solomon Islands.
It was stated that the second officer of the Japanese steamer Juyo Maru reported in 1935 that Vanikoro was approximately two miles out of the position shown on Chart No. 17. This statement is sup ported, added the Gazette, by the master of the Melanesian Mission’s yacht South ern Cross, who notified the authorities in September last year that his observa tions showed a similar error in the charted position of the island.