Nankan

nánkān nánkàn English Etymology From en cmn - 南竿, en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Nan²-kan¹. Proper noun en Nangan (rural township) en 1992 General Report of the Council of Agriculture https://books.google.com/books?id=WGJRAQAAMAAJ 7 17281450 17 2 (viii) The Chukuang and Nankan township administrative offices were renovated. en 2001 zh:光華<t:Sinorama> https://books.google.com/books?id=-HNDAAAAYAAJ 26 w:Government Information Office 0256-9043 20549278 15 Nankan Township is the political and cultural center of Matsu. Most of the tourist sites are located in Nankan, which is where you generally go to buy the specialty products and foods that Matsu is best known for. en JULY 5, 2009 Annie Huang Taiwan islands blossom as China tensions ebb https://web.archive.org/web/20220910202724/https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut-taiwan-front-line-island-070509-2009jul05-story.html 10 September 2022 San Diego Tribune https://archive.ph/jU4ja Since 2001, islanders and their immediate Chinese neighbors have been able to take the 90-minute boat ride between the Chinese port of Mawei and the Matsu town of Nankan, allowing people with the same ancestry to reunite after generations of estrangement. Now any Chinese or Taiwanese can make the trip. en 2011 Chia-Hung Hsieh; et al. Population genetic structure of the newly invasive Q biotype of Bemisia tabaci in Taiwan Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 138 3 10.1111/j.1570-7458.2011.01097.x 1570-7458 41559698 264 2 We collected B. tabaci Q biotype samples from eight sites (Figure 1), six of which (TTS, TMJ, TTG, TNP, TYY, and TTF) were ornamental greenhouses, one (TTN) an ornamental plant trade market, and one (TLM) a small island in Nankan Township, Lienchiang County, Taiwan. en 2021/03/18 Ming-Te Tang Army Command issues a press release stating that "an armoured vehicle of the Matsu Defense Command was slightly damaged when it hit a slope. The driver and passengers were not injured." https://web.archive.org/web/20220910203444/https://www.mnd.gov.tw/english/Publish.aspx?title=News%20Channel&SelectStyle=Defense%20News%20&p=78358 10 September 2022 Ministry of National Defense (Republic of China) Ministry of National Defense, Republic of China https://archive.ph/QGMwE ROC Army Matsu Defense Command states today (18th) that a CM21 Armored vehicle of the Nankan Garrison Brigade had accidentally and for unknown reasons bumped into a slope when it was going through drills for armored vehicles driving in the morning as it drove through Central Avenue and Shengtian Road of Nankan Township this morning (18th). en 2021/04/27 George Liao Taiwan’s Matsu turns off street lights to see ‘blue tears’ https://web.archive.org/web/20210427170929/https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4188242 27 April 2021 w:Taiwan News https://archive.ph/7gZU4 Nankan Township has even used light control measures in the daytime at certain sections of Jieshou Village, Fuxing Village, Meishi Village, and Renai Village since April 9. en en Nangan (island) en https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.226178/ 1959 China Yearbook 1958-1959 Sampson C. Shen Taipei, Taiwan China Publishing Co. 1019-374X 185496792 99 https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.226178/page/n117/ No single island in the 19-islet group bears the name of Matsu[.] It is named after a harbor of Nankan, the main island of the group. Nankan is 114 nautical miles west of the northern Taiwan port of Chilung, and 114 nautical miles from Kinmen.Besides Nankan, other islands in the group are: Peikan, Kaoteng, Tungkun and Hsikun. Kaoteng is only 5 5 nautical miles from the closest mainland point and has been the occasional target of Communist gunners for years. The total land area is only 29 3 sq km. (11.3 sq. mi) Nankan alone has 4.03 sq. km. (10.44 sq mi.) of the total. Located in the fishing area of Fukien, the Matsus are naturally the home of a fishing population. On Nankan there are two good harbors, Fuyu and Matsu. en July 01, 1959 Chronology https://web.archive.org/web/20210120043749/https://taiwantoday.tw/news.php?unit=4&post=7531 w:Taiwan Today Following the sporadic shelling launched against Peikantang on May 11, the Communist artillery units opposite Matsu fired again today a total of more than four hundred shells at Nankantang and Peikantang within one and a half hours, according to a communique issued by the Ministry of National Defense. on en 1962 DeWitt S. Copp The Mudcats The Odd Day https://archive.org/details/oddday00copp w:William Morrow and Company 62-15763 923610553 59–60 https://archive.org/details/oddday00copp/page/59/ One hundred and fifty miles north of Quemoy on Nankan Island, it wasn't the sound of Communist artillery fire that awoke Lieutenant Colonel Carl Kueffer, but the persistent jangling of his telephone.[...]The one landing strip in the Matsus, and good for light aircraft only, was on the second largest island, Peikan. Between Nankan and Peikan lay the Matsu Straits, a twisted riptide-torn channel, boasting freak winds and bouldered shores. en November 4, 1973 Matsu is strong, prosperous zh:自由中國週報<t:Free China Weekly> https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1973-11-04_14_43/ XIV 43 Taipei 0016-0318 1786626 2 https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1973-11-04_14_43/page/n1/ 1 Nankan, the biggest island, is 20,000 meters from the mainland. Kaoteng is only 9,000 meters offshore.In the 1950s, when the Communists were shelling Quemoy, shells aimed at Nankan fell into the ocean. Since then the Communists have extended the range of their artillery.There has been no attempt to mount an amphibious assault on Matsu, and with good reason. Nankan is almost straight up and down and nearly devoid of landing places. Embryo beaches are guarded by barbed wire and mines. Traffic in and out of Nankan is by landing boat and planking. No wharves have been built. en 22 March 1996 22 March 1996 Taiwan: Mobile Units on Matsu Stage Anti-Landing Drills Daily Report: China https://archive.org/details/fbis-reports_fbis-chi-96-057/ w:Foreign Broadcast Information Service Taipei China Broadcasting Corporation News Network 96-057 0892-015X 7522935 80 https://archive.org/details/fbis-reports_fbis-chi-96-057/page/n84/ 1 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015036098484&seq=90 The presidential election will be held on 23 March. On 22 March, the Matsu defense headquarters conducted defense drills at fortified Positions on the garrison islets, as well as anti-landing exercises on Nankan Islet. As imaginary enemies broke through the fortified positions and captured higher positions, the Nankan Command Post swiftly sent mobile units to counterattack them. en 1998 Robert Storey Islands of the Taiwan Straits Taiwan w:Lonely Planet https://archive.org/details/taiwan00stor/ 4th 0-86442-634-8 970524541 8314799M 320, 321 https://archive.org/details/taiwan00stor/page/n334/ 2 Nankan Island is sometimes erroneously referred to as 'Matsu Island' because it's the largest island in the archipelago.The 7km journey by boat between Nankan and Peikan takes either 10 or 40 minutes depending on which vessel you take. en 2000 May Keyuan Zou Redefining the Legal I Status of the Taiwan Strait The International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law https://www.researchgate.net/publication/238425389_Redefining_the_Legal_I_Status_of_the_Taiwan_Strait 15 2 10.1163/157180800X00091 0927-3522 27907296 247 The main island of the complex is Nankan, more commonly known as Mazu, from the name of the major port of the island. It is 114 nautical miles north-west of Keelung, the port city on the northern tip of Taiwan, and is the same distance north of the Jinmen Islands. Other major islands of the group are Peikan, Kaoteng, Tungyin, Hsiyin, Tungchu and Hsichu. Nankan is the largest, with an area of 10.4 square kilometres. https://web.archive.org/web/20250814211448/https://www.researchgate.net/publication/238425389_Redefining_the_Legal_I_Status_of_the_Taiwan_Strait 14 August 2025 en 2003 Julie Ju; et al. A Brief Introduction to Taiwan https://archive.org/details/briefintroductio0000unse/ w:Government Information Office 957-01-6030-6 62208121 8 https://archive.org/details/briefintroductio0000unse/page/8/ Located outside the mouth of the Min River zh 閩江 off the coast of China, the Matsu Islands form the northern anchor of the ROC's offshore defense chain. Nankan zh 南竿, the main island of the group, is more commonly known as Matsu zh 馬祖, which is also the name of the island's largest port. en 2003/07/30 President Chen Inspects the Matsu Defense Headquarters and Various Development Projects https://web.archive.org/web/20220910202118/https://english.president.gov.tw/NEWS/129 10 September 2022 Office of the President, Republic of China (Taiwan) https://archive.ph/FfgR7 During the meeting, the private association members also came up with many suggestions, including building a bridge linking Matsu island group's Nankan and Peikan islets, expanding its airport capacity, setting up an offshore shipment center, allowing Taiwan people to travel to mainland China via Matsu and building large tourist vessels to attract Taiwan tourists to Matsu. en 2007 April Julie Grundvig TAIWAN The Asia Book: A Journey Through Every Country in the Continent https://archive.org/details/asiabookjourneyt0000unse/ 978-1-74104-601-4 82672255 104 https://archive.org/details/asiabookjourneyt0000unse/page/104/ 1, 2 Matsu, goddess of the sea, is the most revered deity of Taiwan. Legend has it that Matsu was once a real person named Lin Mo, born to fisherfolk on Meizhou Island in Fujian, China. It is said that Lin Mo loved the sea and would often stand on the seashore and guide ships safely to shore. On a stormy night, Lin Mo drowned while saving a sailor and her body washed up on the shores of Nankan Island, Matsu, where she was buried by the villagers. Temples were built to honour the young woman and her popularity eventually spread as far as Japan and Southeast Asia. Today there are over 500 temples dedicated to her around Taiwan. en 2017 December Jing-Yuan Chen; et al. Ages and petrogenesis of Jurassic and Cretaceous intrusive rocks in the Matsu Islands: Implications for lower crust modification beneath southeastern China w:Journal of Asian Earth Sciences https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1367912017305485 150 w:Elsevier 10.1016/j.jseaes.2017.10.004 1367-9120 173881251 The gneissic granites (sample Ms04) and massive granites (sample Ms05a) are widespread in the Nankan Island. Gneissic granite has coarse-grained texture and gneissic structure.The massive granites (sample Ms05a) with fine-grained texture in the Nankan Island are intruded by later diabases (sample Ms05b). en 2020 August Yuan Chung-Shin; et al. Spatiotemporal Variation and Chemical Fingerprints of Marine Fine Particles (PM2.5) at the Matsu Islands in Northern Taiwan Strait Aerosol and Air Quality Research https://www.proquest.com/openview/f676a14251dc24a6cb96274d2361073e/ Taiwan Association for Aerosol Research 20 12 10.4209/aaqr.2020.06.0307 1680-8584 319441293 2720 1 Furthermore, HYSPLIT was then used to plot the backward trajectories of air masses moving towards the Matsu Islands. For this particular study, 120-h backward trajectories starting from Nankan Island at three heights of 100, 200, and 300 m above the ground were plotted to simulate the transport routes of air parcels. en 26 October 2020 Andrew Ryan More than 100 Chinese boats gather in Taiwanese waters near Matsu https://web.archive.org/web/20220910204337/https://en.rti.org.tw/news/view/id/2004220 10 September 2022 w:Radio Taiwan International https://archive.ph/SKk4W Taiwan’s coast guard tells the ships that they’ve entered restricted waters and orders them to disperse.These ships began to gather in the early hours of Sunday morning, between the islands of Nankan and Juguang. en Further reading Matsu Island, also called Nankan, in Encyclopædia Britannica en 1998 Nan-kan Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/ 2 New York Columbia University Press 0-231-11040-5 98-071262 164337564 2116 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/2116/ 2 Nan-kan, Taiwan: see MATSU. Anagrams en aaknnn Kannan