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An obstruction in the form of a sand or mud bank, or an outcrop of rock, in a fairway. Its extremities used to be marked by what were called middle ground buoys so that vessels could pass either side of it in safety. Nowadays small areas of obstruction are marked by isolated danger marks and larger ones by cardinal marks belonging to the IALA maritime buoyage system.
Subjects: Maritime History.
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