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Mianhua Islet
Mianhua Islet () is a high island in Zhongzheng District, Keelung, Zhongzheng District, Keelung, Taiwan, located in the East China Sea. Pingfong Rock, just east of the islet, is the easternmost point under the actual control of Taiwan (ROC).記者盧賢秀,"北方三島小檔案", Liberty Times,2010-8-30. Name Mianhua Islet () is also known as Kangjiao Islet, Jhongdao (Midway Islet), Mien-hua Hsü, Menka-sho, Mienhua Yu, and Craig Island. History In his 1868 book ''Rambles of a Naturalist on the Shores and Waters of the China Sea'', Cuthbert Collingwood (naturalist) described Mianhua Islet, its birds and insects, its geology and two people on the island who were collecting bird eggs. In his 1895 book ''From Far Formosa'', George Leslie Mackay briefly described Mianhua Islet: Mackay also described the collection of birds and bird eggs by people from Pengjia Islet. In 1994, plans for a scenic area including Mianhua Islet were proposed. These plans met with opposition from c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East China Sea
The East China Sea is an arm of the Western Pacific Ocean, located directly offshore from East China. It covers an area of roughly . The sea’s northern extension between mainland China and the Korean Peninsula is the Yellow Sea, separated by an imaginary line between the eastern tip of Qidong at the Yangtze River estuary and the southwestern tip of South Korea's Jeju Island. The East China Sea is bounded in the east and southeast by the middle portion of the first island chain off the eastern Eurasian continental mainland, including the Japanese island of Kyushu and the Ryukyu Islands, and in the south by the island of Taiwan. It connects with the Sea of Japan in the northeast through the Korea Strait, the South China Sea in the southwest via the Taiwan Strait, and the Philippine Sea in the southeast via gaps between the various Ryukyu Islands (e.g. Tokara Strait and Miyako Strait). Most of the East China Sea is shallow, with almost three-fourths of it being less tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
