Erhtan

English Etymology From en cmn 二膽// en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Êrh⁴-tan³, and/or *二擔,. Proper noun en Erdan. en October 10, 1956 37 Shells Fired w:The Lincoln Star https://archive.org/details/lincoln-star-1956-10-10/ Lincoln, Nebraska 55 8 1084-5283 33075139 14 https://archive.org/details/lincoln-star-1956-10-10/page/n24/ 3 The Nationalist Chinese Defense Ministry reported that Communists on Chingyu Islet fired 37 shells at Erhtan Islet, 2½ miles south of Amoy, but without effect. en 12 September 1958 War in Asia: Reds to Push to Edge w:U.S. News & World Report https://archive.org/details/sim_u-s-news-weekly-special-issues_1958-09-12_45_11/ XLV 11 0041-5537 7786209 34 https://archive.org/details/sim_u-s-news-weekly-special-issues_1958-09-12_45_11/page/34/ 2 Little Quemoy is a mountain of tunneled rock between the larger island and the mainland. Chief among the outer defenses of these two are the tiny Tan Islands—Tatan, Erhtan and a still-smaller islet. Control of the Tans, which may be the Chinese Reds first objective, would give them a means of tightening the blockade of the Quemoys still further. en December 01, 1958 Theirs Is Not To Ask Why https://web.archive.org/web/20230417161348/https://taiwantoday.tw/news.php?unit=12,12,29,33,33,45&post=23277 w:Taiwan Today Tatan and Erhtan, two rocky outposts of Kinmen, are some nine miles southwest of Kinmen and within yelling distance of the Communist-held mainland.The story is at once thrilling and heart warming. Organized into teams of three men each, the unsung heroes would launch their supply-ladden small motorboat in the darkness of night and sail stealthily to the brink of the death trap, the surrounding waters of Tatan and Erhtan. en 1962 DeWitt S. Copp The Mudcats The Odd Day https://archive.org/details/oddday00copp w:William Morrow and Company 62-15763 923610553 18 https://archive.org/details/oddday00copp/page/18/ On Erhtan island, two hundred feet above the dark waters of Amoy's outer bay, Company Commander Captain Chun Hua Tang stood listening to the same sound that had stopped the fisherman Go-sze Yuan in his escape attempt. en https://archive.org/details/pictorialhistory02taip/ A Pictorial History of the Republic of China: Its Founding and Development II 1981 Taipei Modern China Press 8883106 303 https://archive.org/details/pictorialhistory02taip/page/303/ 1 Tatan and Erhtan are two small islands in the sea southwest of Kinmen.A contingent of some 30 Communist troops tried to land at Erhtan, but were disarmed by Government defenders. en 30 January 1984 27 January 1984 PLA Paper Sees 'Relaxing' Situation in Taiwan Strait Daily Report: China I 020 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015048962297&seq=675 w:Foreign Broadcast Information Service Beijing XINHUA Domestic Service 0892-015X 7522935 China: PRC Media on Taiwan Affairs U 1 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015048962297&seq=723 Since 1979, the paper says, PLA units in Fujian Province have completely stopped their shelling of Dajinmen and Xiaojinmen (Greater and Lesser Quemoy), Dadan (Tatan), Erdan (Erhtan) and other islands where Kuomintang troops are stationed. The KMT have also decreased their shelling of the mainland, it adds. en October 04, 2003 Brian Hsu Coast guard not ready to take over Kinmen islands https://web.archive.org/web/20031013231844/https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2003/10/04/2003070329 13 October 2003 w:Taipei Times 1563-9525 464696902 Taiwan News 4 The six islands in the Kinmen group include Tatan, Erhtan, Menghuyu, Tungting, Peiting and Shihyu, which are scheduled to be demilitarized and opened for tourism early next year. en March 19, 2019 Wendell Minnick How to Save Taiwan from Itself https://web.archive.org/web/20190320130150/https://nationalinterest.org/feature/how-save-taiwan-itself-48122 20 March 2019 w:The National Interest 0884-9382 417266153 Not to crow, but I have been on Dongyin, Erhtan and Tatan islands; the U.S. signal intelligence antenna farm at Pingtun Li; and inside the underground airbase in Chiashan Mountain in Hualien. en 2021 Keyuan Zou China and the Law of the Sea: Historical Aspects Dai Tamada; Keyuan Zou Implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea: State Practice of China and Japan https://books.google.com/books?id=KjInEAAAQBAJ 10.1007/978-981-33-6954-2 978-981-33-6953-5 2524-504X 1245672027 8–9 https://books.google.com/books?id=KjInEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA8 The islands inside the baseline, including Tungyin Island, Kaoteng Island, the Matsu Islands, the Paichuan Islands, Wuchiu Island, the Greater and Lesser Quemoy Islands, Tatan Island, Erhtan Island and Tungting Island, are islands of the Chinese inland waters. en