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Pulau Bujang and Gojong (E Lingga)

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Pulau Bujang and Gojong (E Lingga)

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Localisation

Mer du Nord
Sumatra (Indonesia)
Sumatra E coast (Indonesia)
Pulau Lingga (E Sumatra)
Pulau Bujang and Gojong (E Lingga)
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Characteristics

Island / Atoll

Description

Pulau Bujang, about 5 miles W of Pulau Selentang, is hilly and wooded, with a peaked hill 111m high near its center; it is steep-to on the NE side but elsewhere is surrounded by a reef which dries. On the SE side, are two wooded rocks.

Tjawan Reef, which dries, lies about 0.5 mile NW of Pulau Bujang.

Pulau Gojong, lying between Pulau Bujang and Tanjung Liang, is low and wooded, it is surrounded except on its SW side, by a reef that dries and extends for a distance of 0.4 mile.

Pulau Malangbilang (Malang Bilang), a rock 4.3m high, and Pasir Pandjang, a sandbank which dries, lie about 1 mile SE and NE, respectively, of Pulau Gojong.

2012/02/9
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3.8nm
340°
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6.2nm
75°
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17nm
325°
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326°
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