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Table Island. Off the Amherst coast are Double Island, twelve miles south of Amherst and seven miles from land; and Green Island, near Amherst Point. At the entrance of the Tavoy river is the light on Reef Island.
The oldest lighthouse is Savage Island, built in 1842; the newest Green Island in 1903. The first lighthouse on Oyster Reef was destroyed by a cyclone in 1884.
There are also lightships off the Baragua Flats and Krishna Shoal, south of the mouths of the Irrawaddy; and at the entrance to the Rangoon River.
