tomaree

Updated: May 27, 2025

After passing between Entrance Island and Soldier Point, we steered for Salamander Head, and then for Tomaree Summit, when it was over the centre of the first projection inside Nelson Head, which led over the south-west corner of the shoal patch lying abreast of Red Point in 4 fathoms. Whilst at the latter place, I witnessed a corrobory presenting a peculiar feature.

John Lort Stokes - Discoveries in Australia, Volume 2: 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. By Command of the Lords Commissioners: Of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits: To the Islands in the Arafura Sea