(7) In the South Pacific
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Statutory Documents - IMO Publications and Documents - International Conventions - Load Lines, 1966/1988 - International Convention on Load Lines, 1966, as Amended by the Protocol of 1988 - Annex II - Zones, Areas and Seasonal Periods - Regulation 49 - Seasonal Tropical Areas The following are Seasonal Tropical Areas: - (7) In the South Pacific

(7) In the South Pacific

  (a) The Gulf of Carpentaria south of latitude 11°S.

  • Seasonal periods:

    • TROPICAL: 1 April to 30 November

    • SUMMER: 1 December to 31 March

  (b) An area bounded:

 on the north and east by the southern boundary of the Tropical Zone;

 on the south by the parallel of latitude of 24°S from the east coast of Australia to longitude 154°E, thence by the meridian of longitude 154°E to the Tropic of Capricorn and thence by the Tropic of Capricorn to longitude 150°W, thence by the meridian of longitude 150°W to latitude 20°S and thence by the parallel of latitude 20°S to the point where it intersects the southern boundary of the Tropical Zone; and

 on the west by the boundaries of the area within the Great Barrier Reef included in the Tropical Zone and by the east coast of Australia.

  • Seasonal periods:

    TROPICAL: 1 April to 30 November
    SUMMER: 1 December to 31 March.”

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