Peikan

Pei-kan English Etymology From en cmn - 北竿, en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Pei³-kan¹. Proper noun en Beigan (island). en 1962 DeWitt S. Copp The Mudcats The Odd Day https://archive.org/details/oddday00copp w:William Morrow and Company 62-15763 923610553 66 https://archive.org/details/oddday00copp/page/66/ 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. It was on this seaway that amphibian aircraft landed, wind and sea permitting. en 1975 J. H. Kalicki First Taiwan Strait crisis, 1954-1955 The Pattern of Sino-American Crises: Political-Military Interactions in the 1950s https://archive.org/details/patternofsinoame00kali/ w:Cambridge University Press 0521206006 74-12967 1223678 134–135 https://archive.org/details/patternofsinoame00kali/page/135/ A preliminary PLA attempt in late September to land forces on Peikan T'ang island (one of the Matsu group) was beaten back by the island's defenders and counterattacked by ROC bombers, which claimed to have sunk five motorised junks and damaged six others, out of a total fleet of forty to fifty. on en 1986 中國地質學會會刊 Proceedings of the Geological Society of China https://books.google.com/books?id=ZDIcAQAAIAAJ 29-30 0431-2155 1554622 60 Based on the variation diagrams (Figs. 1 and 10) and the occurrence of gabbroic rocks in Peikan, the author suggests that Matsu granite might have derived by differentiation from normal calc-alkali parent magma. en 27 March 1996 25 March 1996 Taiwan: Mainland Fishing Boats 'Massing' Near Matsu Daily Report: China https://archive.org/details/fbis-reports_fbis-chi-96-060/ w:Foreign Broadcast Information Service !096-060 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435053655056&seq=1001 Taipei China Broadcasting Corporation News Network cmn 0892-015X 7522935 89–90 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435053655056&seq=1097 https://archive.org/details/fbis-reports_fbis-chi-96-060/page/n95/ Mainland fishing boats that had disapperareddisappeared for many days massed again on waters near Peikan, Matsu. Peikan residents pointed out that because mainland fishing boats had come too close, ROC [Republic of China] troops opened fire to disperse them; but the Peikan Headquarters said they knew nothing about the matter and believed fishermen were possibly using explosives to catch fish. en 1997 w:Humphrey Hawksley; Simon Hoberton 7 Dragon Strike: The Millennium War https://archive.org/details/dragonstrikemill0000hawk_e7z1/ Fiction w:Sidgwick & Jackson 0-283-06316-5 37536473 338 https://archive.org/details/dragonstrikemill0000hawk_e7z1/page/338/ As Reece Overhalt spoke to the President, the first reports came in of China’s invasion of the Taiwanese island of Peikan, just off the coast of Fujian. 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 321 https://archive.org/details/taiwan00stor/page/n334/ 2 The 7km journey by boat between Nankan and Peikan takes either 10 or 40 minutes depending on which vessel you take. en November 01, 2000 The Last Shangri-la https://web.archive.org/web/20220929122445/https://taiwantoday.tw/news.php?unit=12,29,33,45&post=21856 29 September 2022 w:Taiwan Today The airport on Peikan Island, the second largest in the Matsu chain, is currently being upgraded at a cost of NT$700 million (US$22.6 million). en January 24, 2003 Matsu's second airport inaugurated https://web.archive.org/web/20220929105700/https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2003/01/24/0000192191 29 September 2022 w:Taipei Times 1563-9525 464696902 Taiwan News 3 https://archive.ph/gsKnU UNI Airways is the only airline running flights between Taipei and Matsu's two airports. The airline operates six flights from Taipei to Nankan and six flights from Nankan to Taipei daily, while running three flights from Taipei to Peikan and three flights from Peikan to Taipei per day. 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 Jane Kilpatrick The first collector Gifts from the Gardens of China: The Introduction of Traditional Chinese Garden Plants to Britain 1698-1862 https://archive.org/details/giftsfromgardens0000kilp/ w:Frances Lincoln Limited 978-0-7112-2630-2 81453104 41 https://archive.org/details/giftsfromgardens0000kilp/page/41/ At the end of August Eaton anchored at a group of three small islands off the coast of Fujian to take on fresh water, as the casks had not been refilled since leaving the Cape in April. Cuninghame calls these islands the Crocodile Islands, but he says the Chinese call them the ‘Pek-kin Islands’. These are the Matsu Islands, north east of Fuzhou, one of which is called Peikantang or Peikan Island. en 09-07-2011 Matsu Islands https://web.archive.org/web/20111203064005/https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/taiwan/matsu.htm 03 December 2011 w:GlobalSecurity.org The first mention of Matsu in the historical record involves an incident of piracy that took place in 1617. This was during the Ming Dynasty, when the seas around China were lousy with pirates. Pirate legends are still told in Chinpi, the most traditional village on Peikan Island. 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 For the massive granite (sample Ms01) from the Peikan Island, fifteen spots were analyzed from 15 zircons and give ages ranging between 87 ± 2 and 98 ± 2 Ma. en 2019 Taiwan The Statesman’s Yearbook 2019 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7176183/ 10.1007/978-1-349-95321-9_204 There are currently two international airports: Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport at Taoyuan near Taipei, and Kaohsiung International in the south. In addition there are 14 domestic airports: Taipei, Hualien, Taitung, Taichung, Tainan, Chiayi, Pingtung, Makung, Chimei, Orchid Island, Green Island, Wangan, Kinmen and Matsu (Peikan). In 2010 Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport handled 25,114,418 passengers, up from 18,681,462 in 2000. en Anagrams en aeiknp kaipen Kanipe