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Nivani Island - Zero wreck anchorage
Anchorage · Deboyne & Torlesse · Louisiade Archipelago, Papua New Guinea
Open Nivani Island - Zero wreck anchorage in the interactive mapHighlights
- Japanese Zero fighter (ditched 1942 after the carrier Shoho was sunk off Misima): upright, wings buried, ~2-3 m, about 50 m off the beach at the Panapompom end - lionfish in the cockpit. Find it from the dinghy. Older bearing (Currency Lass): line up the first palm from the old jetty with the black mark on the cement tank and head out until a sliver of black shingle beach shows east of the sand spit. SV Obiwan (2022/23) found it sanded over and not visible - may come and go with the sand.
The guide
- Position
- 10°47.29'S 152°23.26'E
- Depth
- 3–6 m
- Wind shelter
- good in SE
- Shelter
- In sustained 20 kn+ SE swell wraps round the island and it jiggles, worst at high tide.
- Getting in
- Inside the lagoon; anchor ~50 m off Nivani in 3-6 m sand.
- Bottom
- sand
- Holding
- good
- Ashore
- Uninhabited island; ruins of an old copra plantation on the beach. Panapompom almost walkable at low tide.
Our sketch map
Drawn by us from OpenStreetMap, Sentinel-2 and our GPS. Not for navigation.
More in the Deboyne & Torlesse
Panapompom north coastPanaeati (Paniarta) - canoe buildersWest PassageNibub PassageEast Passage (Rara Is)Torlesse Islands (Tinolan)
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Thanks to Soggy Paws PNG Compendium, Maranatha guide, SV Obiwan: their notes are summarised in our own words.
This guide is a set of personal cruising notes shared in good faith. Information can be out of date or wrong, and positions can be out by hundreds of metres. It is not a substitute for official charts and notices, your own eyes, local knowledge, or professional medical, legal or customs advice. You use it at your own risk: the skipper alone is responsible for the safety of the vessel and everyone on board, and the authors accept no liability for any loss, injury or damage arising from its use.
Thanks to Soggy Paws PNG Compendium, Maranatha guide, SV Obiwan: their notes are summarised in our own words.
This guide is a set of personal cruising notes shared in good faith. Information can be out of date or wrong, and positions can be out by hundreds of metres. It is not a substitute for official charts and notices, your own eyes, local knowledge, or professional medical, legal or customs advice. You use it at your own risk: the skipper alone is responsible for the safety of the vessel and everyone on board, and the authors accept no liability for any loss, injury or damage arising from its use.