Double Island

English Mayu Island Etymology en Proper noun double island en island channel/Sugarloaf Channel city/Shantou p/Guangdong c/China, located inwards after Sugarloaf Island and larger than it. en Masu Mayu en Sugarloaf Island en 1891 August S. B. Partridge American Baptist Mission, Swatow, China. The Baptist Missionary Magazine https://archive.org/details/sim_baptist-missionary-magazine_1891-08_71_8/ LXXI 8 2156-9363 6860296 370 https://archive.org/details/sim_baptist-missionary-magazine_1891-08_71_8/page/370/ At the entrance of the bay on which Swatow is located, there is a small island called Double Island, on which foreigners secured a foothold before the port was opened to the outside world. en 1987 Manly Chin China The Beautiful<t:zh 中國風光攝影集> https://archive.org/details/chinabeautiful0000manl/ Reader's Digest Association Far East Limited 962-258-075-0 17288989 310 https://archive.org/details/chinabeautiful0000manl/page/310/ The Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the most romantic events on the Chinese spiritual calendar - a time to gaze at and worship the beauty of the full moon. I think I captured the reverence and lyricism of the mid-autumn moon in this shot off Mayu Island in Shantou. on en 1988 Paddy Booz; Chang Tsong-zung; Katherine Forestier; Simon Holledge; Jill Hunt Shantou Guilin, Canton, Guangdong https://archive.org/details/guilincantonguan00booz/ Lincolnwood, Illinois Passport Books 0-8442-9819-0 18201058 157 https://archive.org/details/guilincantonguan00booz/page/157/ Food is rarely disappointing in Shantou and Chaozhou, with street food often as good as that offered in restaurants and available late into the night. On Mayu Island there are numerous small, privately-owned snack shops on the beach which serve good rice noodles and seafood. on en 1998 w:Frances Wood Private Life and the Social Round No Dogs and Not Many Chinese: Treaty Port Life in China, 1843-1943 https://archive.org/details/nodogsnotmanychi0000wood/ John Murray 2000 0-7195-6400-X 53971652 138 https://archive.org/details/nodogsnotmanychi0000wood/page/138/ In the 1890s, for no known reason, he took against his colleagues, the Swatow pilots stationed at Double Island, and would walk for miles along the coast to intercept incoming vessels before they could reach the official pilots. en 2003 w:Hudson Taylor Called to Swatow Looking Back: An Autobiography https://archive.org/details/lookingbackautob0000tayl/ Missions w:OMF International 1-929122-19-5 1044750319 84–85 https://archive.org/details/lookingbackautob0000tayl/page/85/ In Shanghai we met a Christian captain who had been trading at Swatow. He made a strong case for the needs of that area. British merchants lived on Double Island, and sold opium. en 2008 Donald M. Kehn Jr. Flushdeckers A Blue Sea of Blood: Deciphering the Mysterious Fate of the USS Edsall https://archive.org/details/blueseaofbloodde00kehn/ w:Zenith Press 978-0-7603-3353-2 2008034957 254425534 43 https://archive.org/details/blueseaofbloodde00kehn/page/43/ The truth, however, is that the Edsall was not then in the Amoy-Kulangsu area but instead spent all of the first half of May 1939 at Swatow (Shantou), China, well to the south. Anchored near Double Island, Edsall observed Japanese aerial attacks in support of their ground offensive in the region. Translations island in Shantou Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 媽嶼 Māyǔ, Māxù References 520 https://books.google.com/books?id=wf0NAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA520 Sailing Directions for the Coast of China 1943 fourth U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office