Bintan Island or Negeri Segantang Lada is an island in the Riau archipelago of Indonesia. The capital Tanjung Pinang, lies in the island's south. Bintan, is the largest among the 3200 islands of Riau Archipelago and is located 10 km E of the Batam Island.
Bintan is very close to the Equator.
Numerous islands and dangers extend for a distance of 20 miles off the E coast of Pulau Bintan.
Vessels
making the passage between Selat Bangka and Singapore Strait should
generally pass outside, or to the E, of the whole of these islands and
dangers. The whole coast and the islands off it are, as a rule, fringed
by coral.
The route from Selat Bangka to Singapore, E of Pulau Lingga and through Selat Riau is the one commonly used by vessels proceeding either way between Selat Sunda (Soenda Strait) and Singapore. The route is safe, sheltered, and easily navigable, with lights and beacons on many of ...
Transiting Selat Riau from S presents few difficulties. The normal care and prudence required in narrow waters should suffice in the fairway. Some difficulty has at times been experienced by strangers in recognizing the entrance to Selat Riau on account of the numerous islands ...
Pulau Merapas is the outer and E island off the E side of Pulau Bintan. It is 63m high, covered with trees, and steep-to 0.3 mile offshore. Pulau Mapor (Pulau Mapur) lies with its S extremity about 10 miles N of Pulau Beruan. A prominent 107m high hill stands on the NW point of ...
Pulau Gin Besar, Pulau Gin-kecil, and Pulau Numbing are three islands, which together are about 5 miles in extent, lying from 8 to 13 miles SE of Gunung Kau, and separated from each other by narrow channels; the channel along the S side of Pulau Gin Besar has depths of 6.9 to 15.5m ...
Pulau Teroti, the S of a cluster of islets lying to the SE of Pulau Numbing, is 34m high and 2.25 miles SE of Pulau Numbing. Pulau Rusah, composed of two rocks on a small drying reef, lies about 2 miles W of Pulau Teroti, and there are several rocks above and below-water between ...
Pulau Telan (Telang), the SW point of which forms the SE limit of Selat Riau, is irregularly shaped and nearly 5 miles long, NE and SW, and about 1 mile wide. It is divided into two parts and may be identified by a square hillock on its S end, 63m high, which, with a sharper peak ...
Bintan Island or Negeri Segantang Lada is an island in the Riau archipelago of Indonesia. The capital Tanjung Pinang, lies in the island's south.
