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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 8, 10 January 1912, Page 7

Elizabeth Reef is one of the many dangers that lie in the path of the mariner navigating the Pacific. More than one gooa ship " has come to grief there, and the treacherous chain of coral has always had an evil reputation among the shipping fraternity. Situated about 300 miletj due east of Cape Byron, Elizabeth Reef is oval-chaped t and about four and a-half miles long and three miles broad. -The edges of it, with the exception of a few rock 6, are covered at high water, and enclose a lagdon. It is 90 miles north ay west of Lord Howo Island, and thus lies near the route of vessels bound from Port Jackson and Newcastle by the middle route to China, and to the northern Paciflc ports of America. At high water, with easterly and south-easterly winds, there is but little break on the western and northwestern sides. From thfe masthead of a Vessel the reef might, under other and more favourable circumstances, be seen about five miles distant, vyien approaching the reef from the Westward great care is necessary^ especially in the forenoon, when the sun would be ahead, and thus pi-event the breakers on tho eastern and far side being distinguished until the vessel was too close to avoid danger^ '