The area north of Victory (Moutiti) Islets is too open for anchorage except in calm weather or light winds from E to S.
Victory Island & Fleet Rocks
History
These islets were named in memory of the Battle of Trafalgar by the officers on board HMS Alligator in 1834.1
1. Olive Baldwin, Story of New Zealand’s French Pass and d’Urville Island (Plimmerton: Fields Publishing House, 1979), 141.