Bashi Channel

English thumb|Map including the BASHI CHANNEL (Army Map Service AMS, 1950) Alternative forms en Bashee Channel en Bachi Channel Etymology From Bashi +channel. Bashee, later Bashi, is from a local language term for a type of liquor drunk plentifully by the crew of William Dampier when they landed on an island south of the channel, as reported in Dampier's book the popular sensation A New Voyage Round the World (page 422) published in 1697. According to Dampier, the crew named the island after the liquor. The channel would take the name of the island. (See also basi.) Pronunciation bäʹshē en /ˈbɑʃi/ + en channel en ænəl 4 Proper noun Bashi Channel The strait, part of Luzon Strait, dividing Mavulis Island of the Philippines and Orchid Island/Lanyu of Taiwan and connecting the South China Sea/Taiwan Strait and Philippine Sea/Pacific Ocean. en https://archive.org/details/directoryfornavi00find/ 1878 w:Alexander George Findlay A Directory for the Navigation of the Indian Archipelago, China, and Japan 2nd w:Richard Holmes Laurie 939 https://archive.org/details/directoryfornavi00find/page/939/ The islands on the North side of the Bashi Channel will be described hereafter. en https://archive.org/details/scottishgeograph12scotuoft/ 1896 Geographical Notes The Scottish Geographical Magazine XII Edinburgh T. and A. Constable 101 https://archive.org/details/scottishgeograph12scotuoft/page/101/ Spain and Japan, having had some disagreements respecting the possession of certain islands lying between the Japanese Archipelago and the Philippines, have agreed that the Bashi Channel shall form the boundary between the possessions of the two States. en https://archive.org/details/censusofphilippi01phil/ 1920 Batanes Islands Census of the Philippine Islands: 1918 1 Manila Bureau of Printing 95 https://archive.org/details/censusofphilippi01phil/page/95/ The Batanes are separated from Formosa by the Bashi Channel, which has a minimum depth of 1,009 fathoms, and from the Babuyanes by the Balintang Channel, which has a minimum depth of 95 fathoms. en https://archive.org/details/The_Times_News_Idaho_Newspaper_1944_10_12/ October 12, 1944 Record Air Attack Smashes Jap Base In Day-Long Raids Times-News (Idaho) Times-News 27 153 Twin Falls, Idaho 1 https://archive.org/details/The_Times_News_Idaho_Newspaper_1944_10_12/ Although the southern tip of Formosa is 225 miles from Luzon, the small islands at the northern end of the Philippines archipelago are separated from Formosa by only the 100-mile wide Bashi channel. en https://archive.org/details/pigboatstruestor00rosc/ 1967 w:Theodore Roscoe Pig Boats 359 https://archive.org/details/pigboatstruestor00rosc/page/359/ Accompanied by SEADRAGON and BLACKFISH, SHARK II (Commander E. N. Blakely) left Pearl Harbor on September 23 to begin her third war patrol. The pack slipped in through Luzon Strait and ranged along the 20° parallel, covering an area about midway between Hainan and the western end of Bashi Channel. en https://archive.org/details/1979comptonyearb00feco/ 1979 Southeast Asian Affairs The 1979 Compton Yearbook w:F. E. Compton 306 https://archive.org/details/1979comptonyearb00feco/page/306/ In May the Soviet fleet conducted war games off the Bashi Channel between Taiwan and the Philippines. Reports that Soviet vessels had obtained the rights to base facilities in Cam Ranh Bay on Vietnam's east coast drew special attention to the exercises. en https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1981-08-16_22_32/ August 16, 1981 U.S. urged to strengthen links with free world to protect Pacific area Free China Weekly XXII 32 Taipei 0016-0318 1786626 1 https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1981-08-16_22_32/ Dr. Angelesio Tugado, chairman of the International Development Center of the Philippines, stressed the importance of the strategic position of the Philippines and the Republic of China in the Taiwan Straits and the Bashi Channel, describing the two countries as key elements in maintaining stability and peace in the Western Pacific. en https://archive.org/details/DTIC_ADA617808/ 2014 James R. Holmes Strategic Features of the South China Sea w:Naval War College Review 67 2 45 https://archive.org/details/DTIC_ADA617808/page/n50/ One sample question: How will Chinese ballistic-missile submarines (SSBNs) based at Sanya, on Hainan Island, reach patrol grounds in the western Pacific should Beijing choose to send them out? To maintain stealth, SSBNs would first have to evade any adversary picket submarines lying offshore. Once in deep water, they would cruise eastward toward the Philippines. In all likelihood Chinese boats would exit through the Luzon Strait, the narrow sea between Taiwan and the Philippine island of Luzon.Or, more precisely, maritime geography will force them to exit through the narrow Bashi Channel, near the northern edge of the strait. Translations the channel of water between Luzon and Taiwan Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 巴士海峽 Bāshì Hǎixiá Japanese: ja バシー海峡 バシーかいきょう, Bashī kaikyō Further reading en Philippines Straits Taiwan