Bertaut Reef

Bertaut Reef is an island in Seychelles, lying in the Outer Islands of Seychelles, with a distance of south of Victoria, Seychelles.

Geography

Bertaut Reef is about SSW of St. Joseph Atoll and north of Poivre Atoll. Desroches Island is to the east. The reef measures northwest-southeast, and is up to wide in the southeastern part, and up to in the northwestern part. It covers an area in excess of 20 km². Only in the south and southeast waves break over a shallow reef edge. Bertaut Reef has a small uninhabited and unvegetated sand cay on its southern part, with an area of about 3000 m². The reef is steep and the sea breaks heavily over its edge.