PANCO POINT, a remarkable cape, situated at the north-eastern extremity of the island of Java, at the mouth of the western entrance of the Straits of Madura. Here are stationed Javanese and European pilots, who, as soon as vessels are seen standing for the channel, go before to pilot them to Gresse and Sourabaya. Long. 112. 44. E. Lat. 6. 48. S.
PANCO POINT
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