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In a nautical sense, a bar is a shoal, similar to a reef: a shallow formation of (usually) sand that is a navigation or grounding hazard, with a depth of water of 6 fathoms (11 meters) or less. It therefore applies to a silt accumulation that shallows the entrance to or course of a river, or creek.
A reef is a ridge or shoal of rock, coral, or similar relatively stable material lying beneath the surface of a natural body of water. [1] Many reefs result from natural, abiotic (non-living) processes such as deposition of sand or wave erosion planning down rock outcrops.
First Thomas Shoal; G. Gabriela Silang Reef (Erica Reef) Gaven Reefs / Gaven North Reef / Gaven South Reef; H. Half Moon Shoal; Hardy Reef (Hubo Reef) Hubo Reef (Hardy Reef) Hughes Reef (Dongmen Reef) I. Investigator Shoal (Pawikan Reef) Irving Reef (Balagtas Reef) Itu Aba (Ligao Island, Taiping Island) J. James Shoal; Johnson Reef: Johnson ...
'Democracy Reef'), and Panatag Shoal (Filipino: Buhanginan ng Panatag, lit. 'serene sandbank'), [ 6 ] are two skerries between Macclesfield Bank to the west and Luzon to the east. Luzon is 220 kilometres (119 nmi) away and the nearest landmass. [ 7 ]
China's repeated attempts to blockade the Second Thomas Shoal, located less than 200 nautical miles from Philipines' province of Palawan, has made the submerged reef a flashpoint for conflict ...
BEIJING (Reuters) -China released on Friday its first survey report of the South China Sea's disputed Sabina Shoal, saying there was no scientific or factual basis for reef damage claims made by ...
The Philippines rejected on Tuesday China's accusation that its grounded warship on the contested Second Thomas Shoal in the South China had damaged the coral reef ecosystem in the area, laying ...
Second Thomas Shoal, also known as Ayungin Shoal (Filipino: Buhanginan ng Ayungin, lit. 'sandbank of silver perch'), Bãi Cỏ Mây and Rén'ài Jiāo (Chinese: 仁爱礁/仁愛礁), [1] is a submerged reef in the Spratly Islands of the South China Sea, 105 nautical miles (194 km; 121 mi) west of Palawan, Philippines. [2]