Huon Coast

The waters off Huon Atoll lie at the northwestern end of the Entrecasteaux reefs, far beyond New Caledonia's Grande Terre. A barrier reef some seventy-five kilometres long surrounds the atoll, broken by several passages and a wider opening to the northwest. In 1792 Antoine Bruny d'Entrecasteaux named Huon after his second-in-command, Jean-Michel Huon de Kermadec.