Lanyu

lànyú Lányǔ English Lanyu Township, Taitung Alternative forms en Lan-yü also from _ Wade-Giles Etymology From en cmn 蘭嶼// Lányǔ en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Lan²-yü³. Pronunciation län′yü′ en Lan yu Proper noun en mountain indigenous township of county/Taitung County c/Taiwan primarily made up of Orchid Island (Lanyu). en 08/04/2018 Easter Island, Lanyu Township forge sisterhood ties: MOFA w:Focus Taiwan https://web.archive.org/web/20250201134837/https://focustaiwan.tw/politics/201808040006 https://focustaiwan.tw/politics/201808040006 February 01, 2025 Chile's Easter Island and Lanyu Township in Taitung County forged sisterhood relations Friday through the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) in Lanyu Friday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) said Saturday. en 2020-05-08 C. Chuang Lanyu Township to Begin Accepting Grant Applications After Delay<t:未受理紓困方案 蘭嶼民眾質疑是二等公民> https://web.archive.org/web/20230914114620/https://news.pts.org.tw/article/477983 14 September 2023 https://news.pts.org.tw/article/477983 w:Public Television Service Lanyu Township is the only place in Taitung County that hasn't started receiving applications of the financial relief subsidy program, leading to complaints from residents about being second-class citizens.At present, the only township in the county that hasn't begun processing applications is Lanyu Township, much to the dismay of residents. en Orchid Island. en https://archive.org/details/biostor-234367/ 1953 April Floristic Interchanges Between Formosa and the Philippines Hui-lin Li Hui-Lin Li w:Pacific Science VII 182 https://archive.org/details/biostor-234367/page/n3/ It was discovered that many species, especially those considered endemic to southern Formosa or Lanyu (Botel Tobago), are synonymous with certain generally widespread species of the Philippine Islands, especially of Luzon and the northern small islands. en https://archive.org/details/gourmet39julmetz/page/n554/ 1979 November Gourmet Holidays Taiwan w:Irene Corbally Kuhn Gourmet (magazine) Gourmet XXXIX 11 164 https://archive.org/details/gourmet39julmetz/page/n717/ Oluanpi's lighthouse looks toward Lanyu, or Orchid Island, a tiny, rocky protuberance sixty-eight miles to the southeast and important because it is the home of the Yami, the smallest and most primitive tribe of aborigines in Taiwan. Isolated by geography, the Yami have been able to preserve their distinctive traditions and culture, living, farming, and fishing as their ancestors did countless hundreds of years ago from small, double-prowed boats covered with intricate carving and brilliant decoration. Adventurous tourists can now fly to Lanyu from Taitung. en https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1982-10-17_23_41 October 17, 1982 Telephones reach all villages ROC forges ahead in communications Free China Weekly XXIII 41 Taipei 0016-0318 1786626 1 https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1982-10-17_23_41 Pointing to the great pains the government has taken to assure that every community in Taiwan has at least one telephone, Lien said that in one case, the Taiwan Telecommunications Administration spent NT$13 million (US$325,000) to have a telephone booth installed in a remote village on Lanyu (Orchid Island) off the coast of eastern Taiwan. en https://archive.org/details/taiwan0000kell/ Taiwan 9th w:Lonely Planet Robert Kelly; Chung Wah Chow 2014 978-1-74220-135-1 308 https://archive.org/details/taiwan0000kell/page/308/ A volcanic island covered with a carpet of tropical rainforest, Lanyu lies about 65km southeast of the city of Taitung, making it the southernmost outpost of Taiwan.Lanyu's status as a far-flung outpost isn't merely geographical, but cultural as well, as the island is by far the least Chinese part of Taiwan. en January 5, 2023 Amy Qin; Amy Chang Chien The Nuclear Dump That Created a Generation of Indigenous Activists w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20230105164636/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/05/world/asia/lanyu-taiwan-nuclear-waste.html 0362-4331 1645522 The waste site in Lanyu, also known as Orchid Island, or Ponso no Tao, has been among the highest-profile causes taken up by Indigenous Taiwanese, who were the main inhabitants of these islands until four centuries ago, when colonial settlers began arriving from mainland China, Europe and, later, imperial Japan. en Synonyms en Orchid Island en Botel Tobago Translations island Chinese: Cantonese: yue 蘭嶼 Mandarin: cmn 蘭嶼 Lányǔ Japanese: ja Further reading Lanyu, Orchid Island Hungtow Island 815 2 en 1998 Lan Yü Island Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/ 2 New York Columbia University Press 0-231-11040-5 98-071262 164337564 1677 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/1677/ 3 Anagrams en alnuy nyula unlay yulan