-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Australian island] Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 15:44:47 -0500 From: Edward James Redmond <[log in to unmask]> Rich: North West Islet is visible on two Royal Australian Navy Hydrographic Service nautical charts: AUS 700 'Torres Strait' (April 1995 - 1:50,000) and AUS 294 'Endeavour Strait' (November 1988 - 1:75,000) at the coordinates given in your message. The islet is just off of the larger Prince of Wales Island (north of Queensland) in the Torres Strait separating Australia and Papua New Guinea. I will be happy to provide a few digital images if it assists your reader. Ed Redmond Geography and Map Division Library of Congress >>> [log in to unmask] 11/25/03 02:14PM >>> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Australian island Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 11:48:15 -0500 From: Boardman, Richard < [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> Hi, I have a patron trying to confirm and locate North West Island off of Queensland, Australia. <http://Australia. >I have identified and located two islands by that name but one is in Western Australia, the other in Northern Territory. <http://Territory. >There is a North West Islet that the coordinates place off the very northern tip of Queensland but I don't see it on anything I have (10-40 s x 142-07 e). <http://e).> Does anybody have a chart that identifies the islet. <http://islet. >I also saw a couple of Northwest Reefs and a West Island but putting the two together as an island is eluding me.Thanks. <http://me.Thanks.> Rich Boardman Map Collection Free Library of Philadelphia [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>