Turtle Dove Shoal
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Turtle Dove Shoal is a dangerous shoal about 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) wide,[1] located at 29°25′S 114°12′E / 29.417°S 114.200°E,[2] in the Indian Ocean about 50 kilometres (31 mi) south of the Houtman Abrolhos, off the coast of Western Australia.
The shoal was first charted on a 1627 map by Hessel Gerritsz, where it was labelled as the "Tortelduyff" rocks. The name is thought to signify that the shoal was first discovered by the ship Tortelduif, which is recorded as having arrived at Batavia, Dutch East Indies on 21 June 1623.[3] It was originally laid down in latitude 29° 11' S, and as a result later voyages failed to locate it. In his 1825 Narrative of a survey of the intertropical and western coasts of Australia, Phillip Parker King suggested that they were merely the southernmost reef of the Houtman Abrolhos.[4] In 1846, John Lort Stokes took the same position:[5]
[A]t noon we were in lat. 29° 11' S., on the position assigned to a reef called the Turtle Dove. From the masthead I could see nothing indicating a shoal. Captain King passed near this position, and also remarks not seeing it. The Colonial schooner Champion, in beating to the southward, has passed over and near its assigned position, and I think we may fairly infer that there is no such reef as the Turtle Dove, and that probably it originated from the south end of the Abrolhos reef, ten miles N.N.W. of it, being seen.
Turtle Dove Shoal is featured in the 2012 movie Storm Surfers 3D about big wave surfing with Ross Clarke-Jones and Tom Carroll (surfer).
References
[edit]- ^ Heath, Byron (2005). Discovering the Great South Land. Dural, New South Wales: Rosenberg Publishing. ISBN 1-877058-31-9.
- ^ "Turtle Dove Shoal". Gazetteer of Australia online. Geoscience Australia, Australian Government.
- ^ Heeres, Jan Ernst (3 January 2006) [1899]. Choat, Colin (ed.). The Part Borne by the Dutch in the Discovery of Australia 1606-1765. Project Gutenberg Australia. Wikidata Q132175190. Retrieved 19 April 2025.
- ^ King, Phillip Parker. Narrative of a survey of the intertropical and western coasts of Australia, Volume 2 (1st ed.). London: John Murray. Retrieved 24 January 2008.
- ^ Stokes, John Lort (1846). Discoveries in Australia: With an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed during the Voyage of H. M. S. Beagle, in the Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. Also a Narrative of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits to the Islands in the Arafūra Sea. Vol. 2. London: T. and W. Boone. pp. 135–136. hdl:2027/yale.39002015419675. Wikidata Q133927699. Retrieved 19 April 2025.
