Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island

English

Etymology

From Russian Большо́й Уссури́йский о́стров (Bolʹšój Ussuríjskij óstrov).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɒlˈʃɔɪ ˌʊsəˈɹiːski ˈaɪlənd/

Proper noun

Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island

1. An island at the confluence of the Amur and Ussuri rivers divided between Heixiazidao, Fuyuan, Jiamusi, Heilongjiang, China and Khabarovsky district, Khabarovsk Krai, Russia
   • 2008, “Return of Heixiazi Island/Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island”, in China Internet Information Center‎^[1], archived from the original on 11 August 2010:

     China and Russia prepare for the launching ceremony of the border monument on Heixiazi Island/Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island, October 13, 2008. The ceremony, held a day later, marked Russia transferring half of the island’s sovereignty to China.

   • [2010 [2009 August 2], Luke Harding, “Russia Fears Embrace of Giant Eastern Neighbour”, in Richard Joseph Stein, editor, Russia (The Reference Shelf)‎^[2], volume 82, number 4, H. W. Wilson Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 168:

     In 2004 Russia settled a long-running border dispute with China, handing over Tarabarov island in the Amur river, and half of another large island, Bolshoy Ussuriysky.]

   • 2014, Cai-QiaoWang et al., “Co-circulation of Hantaan, Kenkeme, and Khabarovsk Hantaviruses in Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island, China”, in Virus Research‎^[3], volume 191, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     To reveal the molecular epidemiology of hantaviruses in this region, a total of 374 small mammals (eight species of rodents and one species of shrew) were captured in the Chinese part of the Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island (Heilongjiang Province). […] Overall, these results suggest that Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island harbors considerable hantavirus diversity.

   • 2016 May 5, Bruno Maçães, “Signs and Symbols on the Sino-Russian Border”, in The Diplomat‎^[4], archived from the original on 6 May 2016:

     The island is divided in almost equal sections between Russia and China. The Soviet Union occupied the whole of Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island (known as Heixiazi, or Black Bear, in Chinese) following the so-called Chinese Eastern Railway Incident of 1929, but in an historic agreement between Russia and China signed in 2004, Moscow agreed to return about half of it. The transfer took place in 2008. Since then the island in the Ussuri has become a miniature symbol of the vast Asian regions divided between the two geopolitical giants.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island.

Synonyms

• (from Mandarin Chinese) Heixiazi

Translations

island

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 黑瞎子島 / 黑瞎子岛 (zh) (Hēixiāzǐ Dǎo)

• Finnish: Iso-Ussurinsaari
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can