Taitan

taitan English Proper noun en Dadan. en B. N. 1904 The Drum-Wave Island, and Other Verses of the China Coast Hongkong Kelly & Walsh, Limited 27 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f9/The_drum-wave_island%2C_and_other_verses_of_the_China_Coast_%28IA_drumwaveislandot00nbnbiala%29.pdf#page=32 Oh, Taitan Island, sandy shores and beaches And slowly swinging seas. Your days are spent in restfulness and leisure, In idle, dreamy, drowsy hours of pleasure; Would we had more of these. en Cecil A. V. Bowra 1908 Amoy Arnold Wright and H. A. Cartwright Twentieth Century Impressions of Hongkong, Shanghai, and Other Treaty Ports of China London Lloyd's Greater Britain Publishing Company 813 https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Twentieth_Century_Impressions_of_Hongkong,_Shanghai,_and_other_Treaty_Ports_of_China.djvu/821 The Dodd Island and Chapel Island lights mark the approach of the port, and at the southern entrance to the harbour stand the Taitan and Tsingseu Lighthouses. en Philip Wilson Pitcher 1912 Historical Amoy In and About Amoy: Some Historical and Other Facts Connected with One of the First Open Ports in China 2nd Shanghai Methodist Publishing House in China 43 https://books.google.com/books?id=jjc0lVVUNlQC&pg=PA43 There are two others that mark the approach to Amoy. First, there is Dodd Island Light about twenty-six miles to the north; and second, Chapel Island Light about twenty miles southward. Taitan and Chhi-su guard the entrance to the harbor.