Barker Passage is a
channel
Channel, channels, channeling, etc., may refer to:
Geography
* Channel (geography), in physical geography, a landform consisting of the outline (banks) of the path of a narrow body of water.
Australia
* Channel Country, region of outback Austral ...
through
reef about a kilometre south of
North Island
The North Island, also officially named Te Ika-a-Māui, is one of the two main islands of New Zealand, separated from the larger but much less populous South Island by the Cook Strait. The island's area is , making it the world's 14th-largest ...
in the
Houtman Abrolhos.
[Australia 1:100000 Topographic Survey, Map sheet 1641 (Edition 1): Wallabi] Its gazetted location is ,
['' Gazetteer of Australia'' (1996). Belconnen, ACT: Australian Surveying and Land Information Group.] but it is actually located nearly 2½ kilometres west of there, at approximately .
References
North Island (Houtman Abrolhos)
Straits of Australia
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