Lateral mark
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lateral-mark-307-1026383
title:
Lateral mark
text:
A lateral buoy, lateral post or lateral mark, as defined by the International Association of Marine Aids to Navigation and Lighthouse Authorities, is a sea mark used in maritime pilotage to indicate the edge of a channel. Each mark indicates the edge of the safe water channel in terms of port (left-hand) or starboard (right-hand). These directions are relative to the direction of buoyage; this is usually a nominally upstream direction. In a river, the direction of buoyage is towards the river's
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Sea mark marking the edge of a channel
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateral_mark
date created:
date modified:
2024-01-25T09:01:05Z
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