The DX Century Club Awards article in the February 1990 issue of QST announced:

"Conway and Banaba - New DXCC Countries

By unanimous vote (7-0), the ARRL Awards Committee has accepted the recommendations of the ARRL DX Advisory Committee to add Conway (3D2) and Banaba (T33) to the ARRL DXCC Countries List, by virtue of point 2(b) of the Countries List Criteria.

Conway (3D2), a territory of the Republic of Fiji, lies about 280 statute miles south-west of Viti Levu (3D2), and more than 500 miles from Rotuma (3D2)."

<snip - paragraph on Banaba>

"Because no activity is believed to have taken place from Conway prior to the 3D2CR operation of April, 1989, contacts with the reef are creditable effective the start of this operation".


The RSGB DX News Sheet #1363, dated 1989-04-26, reported:"The 3D2CR team arrived around 0500z on Wednesday, and was very active". Thus, the start of the 3D2CR operation was 1989-04-19. 


Location map

Conway Reef aka Ceva-i-Ra is in the bottom left corner of the map:



Prefix:  3D2/c


Ranking in "Most Wanted" league 


The IOTA reference for Conway Reef  is OC-112.


Whitelisting

Conway Reef  is a whitelisted DXCC entity. The following table lists stations known to have been QRV from Conway Reef and which are thought to be good for DXCC credit.
The callsigns below are the only ones that Club Log will map to Conway Reef. These callsigns have been taken from QSL cards and other sources.
Callsigns that are not listed below, or QSOs outside the exception date range, will be not be mapped to Conway Reef but will be mapped as INVALID.
Please advise any missing valid  callsigns to Alan, 5B4AHJor via the Help Desk.


CallSee the Call Tester entry for exact dates, QSLs and additional notes
3D2CR1989 - April
3D2HL, 3D2SI, 3D2VT, 3D2WV1989 - July
3D2AM1990 - May
3D2CT, 3D2CU1995 - March/April
3D2CI, 3D2CY2001 - February, October
3D20CR2009 - September/October
3D2C2012 - September/October
3D2CR2019 - June
3C2CI, 3D2CY
2001 - February
3D2CI, 3D2CY2001 - October
3D2CR2021 - September
3D2CCC2024 - April



Operations that did not happen or do not count
3D2CR2008 - February - QRV from Fiji


Acknowledgements and references

ARRL Letter 1989-12-18

QST February 1990

Hamgallery Conway Reef, Oceania

Wikipedia Conway Reef