Cairns pilotage area

The Cairns pilotage area is the area of—

(a)  waters bounded by an imaginary line drawn—

  • starting at the high-water mark on the north-western extremity of Cape Grafton 
  • then in a northerly direction to latitude 16° 49.875' south, longitude 145° 54.954' east 
  • then in a west-north-westerly direction to the high-water mark on the northern extremity of Taylor Point 
  • then by the high-water mark in a southerly direction along the shoreline of the mainland to the starting point; and

(b) the navigable waters of rivers and creeks flowing, directly or indirectly, into the waters in paragraph (a).

Cairns pilotage/compulsory pilotage area chartlet.

Last updated
23 January 2023