Citations:Sikang

English citations of Sikang

• 1944 March 31, Terris Moore, “Highest Mountain Peak; Geographer Thinks Reported Discovery May Be in Amne Machin Range”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-05, page 20‎^[2]:

  Today's report from Chungking of the aerial discovery of a mountain in Sikang (Sikong) Province, West China, believed to be higher than Mount Everest comes with especial interest to the writer, who happened to be a member of that American scientific expedition which in 1932 made a year-long exploration of that region, with official Chinese Government permission, and concluded by climbing and surveying what is believed to be the highest mountain peak of Sikang Province.

• 1949, Han-seng Chen, “The Kamba and their Relations with Central China”, in Frontier Land Systems in Southernmost China‎^[3], Institute of Pacific Relations, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 73:

  (1) At about the same time their number was 573,981 in the eastern half of Sikang Province, including nineteen districts east of the Kin-sha River; (2) and 321,945 in the western half.

• 1950 December 12 [1950 December 11], “REDS TAKE OVER SIKANG; Name Government for Reg Once Held Part of Tibet”, in The New York Times‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 January 2024, page 14‎^[5]:

  The Chinese Communist Government has appointed officials for a new "autonomous peoples government" in Western Sikang Province, […]

• 1972, G. Kenneth Whitehead, “The Deer of Europe and Northern Asia”, in Deer of the world‎^[6], →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 84–85:

  The southern limit of the Roe deer in China seems to be about latitude 30°N but in Sikang and Szechwan provinces it may extend slightly south of this latitude in the Kinsha River area.

• 2008 [1946], Ellery Queen, “The Adventure of the Needle's Eye”, in Paul D. Staudohar, editor, Murder: Short & Sweet‎^[7] (Fiction), Chicago: Chicago Review Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 205:

  Where five channels in the Northwest Passage were known, Ericsson opened a sixth. He found a peak in Sikang Province of western China, in the Amne Machin Range, which was almost a thousand feet higher than Everest, but he lost his instruments and his companions and Mount Everest remained on the books the highest mountain on the planet.