Taiping Island

English Etymology en zh 太平島, named after ROCS Taiping ROCS Taiping. Pronunciation tīʹpǐngʹen 1952 Itu Aba Island Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 858 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/858/ 1 Itu Aba Island (ēʹto͞o äʹbä), Chinese Taiping or T’ai-p’ing (both: tīʹpǐngʹ), Proper noun Taiping Island en An <<island>> in the South China Sea, administered as part of Cijin (Qijin), Kaohsiung, <<c/Taiwan>>, and claimed by China, the Philippines and Vietnam. en Itu Aba Ligao Island Philippines July 18, 2016 Takuay Lee Taiwan does not accept the international tribunal’s decision https://web.archive.org/web/20160719125459/https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/taiwan-does-not-accept-the-international-tribunals-decision/2016/07/18/30941418-4c30-11e6-bf27-405106836f96_story.html Washington https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/taiwan-does-not-accept-the-international-tribunals-decision/2016/07/18/30941418-4c30-11e6-bf27-405106836f96_story.html 19 July 2016 Letters to the Editor The tribunal did not formally invite the ROC to participate in the proceedings, nor did it solicit our views. The ruling impinges on the interests of the ROC and has seriously undermined our rights over the South China Sea islands and their relevant waters, especially Taiping Island, or Itu Aba, the largest naturally formed island with fresh water in the Spratly chain. September 23, 2016 Christopher Mele For Taiwan, Google Images of Disputed Island Are Too Clear https://web.archive.org/web/20160924034827/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/24/world/asia/taiwan-google-itu-aba-taiping-island-blur-photos.html 24 September 2016 https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/24/world/asia/taiwan-google-itu-aba-taiping-island-blur-photos.htm Asia Pacific Satellite photos by Google can be a fun way to see your house — or your neighbor’s — from high above.But in the case of an island in the South China Sea that is claimed by four countries, sometimes those photos can be too revealing.That is the position maintained by Taiwan, which has asked Google to blur satellite images of the disputed island — Itu Aba, also known as Taiping Island — that show what appear to be new military installations. Translations island Chinese: Cantonese: yue 太平島 Mandarin: cmn 太平島 Japanese: ja 長島 ながしま, Nagashima Tagalog: tl Pulo ng Ligao Vietnamese: vi Đảo Ba Bình References Further reading en 1998 Spratly Islands or Nansha Islands Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee03cohe/ 3 New York Columbia University Press 0-231-11040-5 98-071262 164337564 3003 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee03cohe/page/3003/ 1 Includes Taiping Isl. (Itu Aba Isl.)