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固有名詞

Peikan

1. Alternative form of Beigan (island).
   • 1962, DeWitt S. Copp, “The Mudcats”, in The Odd Day‎, William Morrow and Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, 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.

   • [1975, J. H. Kalicki, “First Taiwan Strait crisis, 1954-1955”, in The Pattern of Sino-American Crises: Political-Military Interactions in the 1950s‎, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 134–135:

     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.]

   • 1986, 中國地質學會會刊 [Proceedings of the Geological Society of China]‎, numbers 29-30, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 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.

   • 1996 March 27 [1996 March 25], “Taiwan: Mainland Fishing Boats 'Massing' Near Matsu”, in Daily Report: China‎, number 096-060, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Taipei China Broadcasting Corporation News Network, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 89–90‎:

     Mainland fishing boats that had disapperared 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.

   • 1997, Humphrey Hawksley, Simon Hoberton, chapter 7, in Dragon Strike: The Millennium War‎ (Fiction), Sidgwick & Jackson, →ISBN, →OCLC, 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.

   • 1998, Robert Storey, “Islands of the Taiwan Straits”, in Taiwan (Lonely Planet)‎, 4th edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 321, column 2:

     The 7km journey by boat between Nankan and Peikan takes either 10 or 40 minutes depending on which vessel you take.

   • 2000 November 1, “The Last Shangri-la”, in Taiwan Today‎, archived from the original on 29 September 2022:

     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).

   • 2003 January 24, “Matsu's second airport inaugurated”, in Taipei Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 September 2022, Taiwan News, page 3‎:

     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.

   • 2003 July 30, “President Chen Inspects the Matsu Defense Headquarters and Various Development Projects”, in Office of the President, Republic of China (Taiwan)‎, archived from the original on 10 September 2022‎:

     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.

   • 2007, Jane Kilpatrick, “The first collector”, in Gifts from the Gardens of China: The Introduction of Traditional Chinese Garden Plants to Britain 1698-1862‎, Frances Lincoln Limited, →ISBN, →OCLC, 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.

   • 2011 July 9, “Matsu Islands”, in GlobalSecurity.org‎, archived from the original on 03 December 2011:

     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.

   • 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”, in Journal of Asian Earth Sciences‎, volume 150, Elsevier, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     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.

   • 2019, “Taiwan”, in The Statesman’s Yearbook 2019‎, →DOI:

     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.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Peikan.

アナグラム

• kaipen, Kanipe

固有名詞

Pei-kan

1. Alternative form of Beigan (island)
   • [1954, “China Sea Pilot”, in Great Britain Hydrographic Department‎, volume III, page 165:

     Ma-tsu hai-hsai (strait), situated between Ma-tsu shan and Pei-kan-tang tao, north-eastward, has a navigable width of nearly one mile between the reefs on either side.]

   • [1954 September 30, “Reds Repulsed”, in The Lincoln Star‎, Home edition, volume 52, Lincoln, Nebraska, sourced from TAIPEH (INS), →OCLC, page 2, column 6:

     The defense ministry in Taipeh, Nationalist capital of Formosa Island, said a fleet of 40 to 50 junks tried to put the landing force ashore on Pei Kan Tang in the Matsu Islands off the estuary of the Min River.]

   • 1970, Ken Fitzgerald, “Asia”, in The Space Age Photographic Atlas‎, Crown Publishers, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 196:

     South of Hang-chou Wan (Bay) below Shanghai, the China coastline changes from a smooth, flat topography to one of irregular, rocky promontories and numerous islands. Foochow, the Fugiu of Marco Polo, dates from the seventh century. Offshore the Ma-tsu Lieh-tao (Matsu and Pei-kan, or Changshu Islands) are heavily fortified Nationalist strongholds.

   • 1998, “Matsu”, in Saul B. Cohen, editor, The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1917, column 3:

     The major isls. include Pei-kan and Nan-kan (Mazu). Fishing is the main economic activity.

   • 2000, Humphrey Hawksley, Dragon Fire‎, Macmillan Publishers, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 315:

     'We have successfully taken Pei-kan,' said Leung. 'Heavy shelling has been going for twenty minutes from Kinmen.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Pei-kan.

アナグラム

• Kanipe, kaipen