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Point and reef on the eastern side, and by the barrier reef on the western side. It is reached through a gap in the reef about half a mile wide, with deep water, with
Tautira point giving it protection from winds from north-east. It is 0.5 miles (0.80 km) wide and about the same depth. The bay
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Tautira Bay is Te-'afa ("the crack"). Port Pihaa is the deep basin, from 1,800–2,400 feet (550–730 m) wide and 1.5 miles (2.4 km) long, between the barrier reef and the shore, extending from Tautira Bay to Pihaa Point, with depths nearly everywhere of from 16 to 19 fathoms,
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anchored several times in this bay, from which circumstance the name is derived. The depth in the middle of the entrance is from 35 to 60 fathoms, diminishing gradually to the shore. The bay is clear, except a small patch of 2 fathoms 600 feet (180 m) southward of the point of reef on the
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Tautira Bay being 600 feet (180 m) wide, but divided by a small 2-fathom patch; the other from the westward, from Taharoa Pass, is only about 60 yards wide.
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