Sugarloaf Island

English Dezhou Island Etymology en Proper noun Sugarloaf Island en obsolete en island channel/Sugarloaf Channel city/Shantou p/Guangdong c/China, located in the Port of Shantou and having a lighthouse. en Luyu en Double Island en 1943 PORT SWATOW Sailing Directions for the Coast of China https://books.google.com/books?id=wf0NAQAAIAAJ w:U.S. Government Printing Office 719128 524 The tidal currents set directly through Sugarloaf Channel, except northwestward of Sugarloaf Island where a branch of the outgoing current runs along the northern shore of the island. en 1945 China Proper https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.106362/ III Naval Intelligence Division 227813474 266 https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.106362/page/n318/ Luyu channel, south of the two islets Luyu (Sugarloaf island) and Muyu (Double island), is about 300 yards wide with depth of 6 to 11 fm. in the fairway; north of the islands is the less frequented Eastern channel with depths of 3½ to 8 fm. en 2008 Donald M. Kehn Jr. A Blue Sea of Blood https://archive.org/details/blueseaofbloodde00kehn/ w:Zenith Press 978-0-7603-3353-2 2008034957 254425534 17052149M 44 https://archive.org/details/blueseaofbloodde00kehn/page/44/ Duly relieved, Edsall the next day stood out at 11:30, conned by a local pilot, Mr. Woods. She steamed down the coast past Sugarloaf Island, Good Cape Lighthouse, Bill and Green islands, and Breaker Point Lighthouse to anchor off South Nine Pin Island (Nam Kwo Chau), near the main shipping lanes, east of the British Crown Colony at Hong Kong. en Translations island in Shantou Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 鹿嶼 Lùyǔ/Lùxù Further reading 520 https://books.google.com/books?id=wf0NAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA520 Sailing Directions for the Coast of China 1943 fourth U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office