P'ing-t'an

Pingtan English thumb|Map including P'ING-T'AN (Army Map Service AMS, 1954) Etymology From en cmn 平潭, en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Pʻing²-tʻan². Proper noun 1 1 en Pingtan. en 1952 Haitan Island or Hai-t'an Island Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY w:Columbia University Press 802473294 746 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/746/ 1 Chief town is Pingtan or P'ing-t'an (pop. 5,382), fishing port on W coast. The isl. shelters (W) Haitan Bay (or Futsing Bay), which provides a deep anchorage. en 26 February 1960 Communist China Digest https://archive.org/details/DTIC_ADA358598/ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Communist_China_Digest,_No._10_DTIC_ADA358598.pdf 10 1998 w:United States Joint Publications Research Service 45509482 4 https://archive.org/details/DTIC_ADA358598/page/n13 On 18 October, a US warship invaded China's territorial waters in the P'ing-t'an area of Fukien Province. China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has issued stern warning No. 74. en 1977 Climatological Data National Summary https://archive.org/details/climatologicalda27unit/ 27 13 w:NOAA 0095-4365 4447360 96–97 https://archive.org/details/climatologicalda27unit/page/96 Typhoon Billie (1976) Typhoon Billie exited Taiwan and moved toward the People's Republic of China on a west-northwestward track. By morning on the 10th, Billie had weakened to a tropical storm and slowed to 11 kn. At 0000 on the 10th, P'ing-t'an reported 60-kn winds from the north-northeast and sea-level pressure of 981.2 mb. About 0300 Billie went ashore 25 miles southeast of P'ing-t'an. Within hours the storm dissipated over the rugged terrain of eastern China. en Translations Pingtan Anagrams en aginnpt Panting panting