Haymet Rocks

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title: "Haymet Rocks" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["phantom-islands", "reefs-of-the-pacific-ocean"] description: "Phantom island" topic_path: "general/phantom-islands" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymet_Rocks" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

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The Haymet Rocks were reported by J.E. Haymet, master and owner of the cutter Will Watch, when on passage between Auckland and Rarotonga; in 1863 the cutter passed between two rocks and struck on the northern of the two, damaging her false keel. The rocks are said to extend over a space of about a quarter of a mile, to have been distinctly seen, and with apparently 7 or of water over them. Haymet gave their position as , which would place them about 135 mi west of the position assigned to Orne Bank.

These rocks were unsuccessfully searched for, in the position given, by HMS Satellite in 1886, and again by the French Government vessel Fabert in 1887; the latter vessel spent three days in the search under favourable circumstances of wind and weather, running over some 253 mi within a radius of from 20 to of the position assigned, and with no result. A depth of 68 fathom to the rocky ocean floor was found by the Fabert at .

In December 1882, however, a Lloyd's agent at Rarotonga reported that the Haymet rocks were supposed to exist about 150 mi SSW of Rarotonga, and therefore right in the track of vessels bound from Auckland to that island, who always give this supposed position a wide berth. If this information is correct, these rocks are about 240 mi NNW of the position as given by Haymet and still shown on the charts.

It was suggested that the Haymet Rocks were a remnant of sunken island Tuanaki.

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References

  1. "THE MYSTERY OF TUANAKI ISLAND". [[Pacific Islands Monthly]].
  2. Coppell, W. G.. (1973). "About the Cook Islands. Their Nomenclature and a Systematic Statement of Early European contacts". Journal de la Société des océanistes.
  3. Stommel, Henry. (1984). "Lost Islands: The Story of Islands That Have Vanished from Nautical Charts". University of British Columbia Press.

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