Map including Ilha de Taipa (Tam Tsai) 氹仔 (AMS, 1954)
[1749 July, “Anſon's voyage of the world”, in The Scots Magazine[1], volume xi, pages 333-334:
However, to avoid ſome inconveniencies relating to port duties, which would have been demanded in the port of Canton, and could not, in honour to the British flag, be complied with by us, he adviſed Mr Anſon to put into the harbour of Typa, about ſix miles from Macao, where he might careen his ſhip without diſturbance ; and actually ſent us a pilot to conduct us ſafe to the intended birth.]
[1785, Captain Cook's third and last voyage to the Pacific Ocean : in the years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779 and 1780[2], page 364:
During the abſence of our party from Macao,[…] On our arrival in the Typa, not only the ſailors, but likewiſe the younger officers were extremely ragged in their apparel ;[…]]
The road-ſtead of Macao is ſufficiently ſpacious to contain 60 gun-ſhips at the entrance of Typa ; and in its harbour, which is below the town, and communicates with the river up to the eaſtward, ſhips of ſeven or eight hundred tons, with half their lading.]
Sensible of the heavy expense, and all the other embarassments which such a solemn duty may cast upon Her Most Faithful Majesty's[…], the Undersigned feels it his duty to offer to your Excellency, on behalf of the British Government, immeidate facilities on the British Treasury, to any extent that your Excellency may be pleased to require him to draw, for the purpose of placing the settlement of Macao, and the harbour of the Taipa, in a state of effectual defence, and for the equipment of a sufficient number of armed vessels to keep the coasts clear ; and if it shall seem necessary to your Excellency, for the reinforcment of the garrison, and the necessary supply of the city, by immediate appeal to Manilla.
[1855, Dr. Yvan, “Macao and its Environs”, in Six Months Among the Malays, and A Year in China[6], London: James Blackwood, Paternoster Row, →OCLC, pages 355-356:
The other islands in the neighbourhood of Macao, are not nearly so interesting as Lappa, for although their geological construction is the same, their barren rocks can boast of very few plants or insects. Taïpa, however, deserves especial mention ; it is a foreign port, sheltered by a group of islands, which are considered as the property of the Portuguese. Some years ago, before Hong-Kong was founded, or the cinque ports opened, an active contraband trade was carried on at Taïpa, and it was visited by many foreign vessels ; however, the concourse of Europeans thither was never so numerous as to attract the Chinese, a few carpenters and other workmen being the only frequenters of its shores. Of late years these islets have been the resort of poor fishermen, whose miserable huts are scattered over the arid ground, upon which not a shrub, vegetable, or blade of grass, is to be seen.[…] The fishermen of Taïpa do not participate in the success of the labourers of the neighbouring isle.]
1868 June 13, “MACAO—ITS REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE”, in The China Mail[7], volume XXIV, number 1568, Hongkong, →OCLC, page 5, column 2:
In the hard times of Macao, in the times that gambling houses and Chinese Lotteries were not known ; when Bills of the Colony or Province of the Holy City, drawn on the Portuguese Financial Agency in London, went begging for purchasers; the then Governor Amaral (who was murdered on the 22d August 1849) under the pretext of protecting the inhabitants of the Taipa Island and fishermen frequenting the anchorage against piratical attacks, erected in 1847 a small fort on the Island, and, it is said, the Chinese authorities protested then against his, Amaral's act. The Portuguese, as has been said, have no more right to the Taipa Island and anchorage, than they would have, were they to lay claim to-morrow to Lapa or Petera Island on the other side of the Inner Harbor of Macao!
[1871 [1870 March 8], Cecil C. Smith, Annual Reports on the State of the Colonies, 1871-72 (Irish University Press Series of British Parlimentary Papers)[8], volume 14, Irish University Press, published 1970, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 257:
The trade in salt fish remained on the decrease, as had been the case since the establishment of the cordon of revenue stations in our neighbourhood. Ping-chow and Tam-Tsai opposite Macao, have apparently reaped the benefit of the falling off of the trade here, but I am glad to report that this year has opened with a great improvement, and the dealers in this important trade are anticipating better times than the last three years have produced.]
1877 October 29 [1877 September 8], “MACAO.”, in The London and China Telegraph[9], volume XIX, number 739, London, →OCLC, page 926, column 2:
There has been some disturbance lately at Taipa, the Chinese complaining of the heavy taxation to which they were subjected. His Excellency the Governor, Senhor Carlos Eugenio da Silva, went over himself and settled everything peaceably. The taxes have been reduced, and the Chinese are now quite satistied.
The Company is to lay down a cable not only between Hongkong and Macao, but also from Macao to the island of Taipa, which lies opposite the Portuguese Colony.
1898 May 14, The Hongkong Weekly Press and China Overland Trade Report[11], volume XLVII, number 19, →OCLC, page 392, column 1:
The Bishop of Macao has issued a circular recommending that public prayers be said in the churches of Macao and Taipa on three consecutive days for the abatement of the plague, and that Mondays be observed as days of abstinence during the continuance of the epidemic.
Macao, at the mouth of the Canton river, contained, with the dependent islands of Taipa and Coloane, 74,568 Chinese, 3,106 native Portuguese, 615 Portuguese from the Continent and 177 from the islands, and 161 foreigners.
Including two small islands—Taipa and Coloane—the whole colony totals only six square miles, but it supports some 300,000 people. About 99 percent are Chinese, many of them refugees.
Including two small islands, Taipa and Colowan, and the area that lies within the city limits, Macao covers only six square miles. The population is approximately 235,000 Chinese, 1,080 Portuguese and 20,000 native “Macanese.”
To the south of the main part of Macau, a bridge spanning a mile and a half of water leads to the island of Taipa, and a causeway connects Taipa to the other island, Coloane.
The territory of Macau consists of a peninsula of land connected to the Guangdong Province of mainland China as well as two islands consisting of Taipa and Coloane which are connected to the peninsula either by bridges (Taipa, 2) or a causeway (Coloane).
2001, Richard Louis Edmonds, William John Kyle, “Land Use in Macau: Changes between 1972 and 1994”, in Arthur H. Chen, editor, Culture of Metropolis in Macau: An International Symposium on Cultural Heritage: Strategies for the Twenty-first Century[20], Cultural Affairs Bureau [文化局], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 255, column 2:
Major reclaimed areas include the Ilha Verde area, Areia Preta, lao Hon, Hipódromo, the early twentieth century reclamation of the Porto Exterior, subsequent reclamation projects of the Porto Exterior (Zona de Aterros do Porto Exterior or ZAPE and the Novos Aterros do Porto Exterior or NAPE), and the enclosure of the Praia Grande project on the peninsula, the natural reclamation between the former islets of Taipa Grande and Taipa Pequena (Baixa da Taipa) which have now formed Taipa, the more recent reclamation just to the west of Ponta da Cabrita in north-east Taipa, and the even more recent airport reclamation to the east of Taipa. Overall it is Taipa (which means mudflats in Portuguese and its Cantonese name Tam-zai also means mud flats) that has changed the most through reclamation followed by the east coast of the Macau Peninsula.
Then I was heading over the Friendship Bridge, which stretched ahead looking as new as if it had been rolled out just for me. I was on my way to Taipa, one of two large islands off Macau, to the hulking Hyatt Regency hotel.
The property is on Taipa, an island off the Macao peninsula, connected by a bridge. Most of the region’s casinos are on the peninsula, while Taipa is known as a residential area, and favored by expatriates. The island is about an hour from Hong Kong by ferry.
Taipa was once two islands that were slowly joined together by silt from the Pearl River. A similar physical joining has happened to Taipa and Coloane because of land reclamation from the sea. The new strip of land joining the two islands is known as Cotai (from Coloane and Taipa).
2018 January 19, “Croupier and guard arrested over $6m Macau casino heist”, in France 24[26], archived from the original on 19 January 2018, Live news[27]:
Lee then stuffed the casino chips into a bag and drove away on a motorcycle. He later met the security guard, surnamed Ho, at a park in neighbouring Taipa with the chips, the spokeswoman added.
2019 December 20, Holmes Chan, “China leader Xi Jinping praises Macau for promoting patriotism and ‘choosing unity over infighting’”, in Hong Kong Free Press[28], archived from the original on 27 January 2024, China:
China’s president also visited a secondary school in Taipa on Thursday and was greeted by enthusiastic students and staff.
It’s hard to imagine now, but there were once three mountainous, verdant islands between Macau and mainland China. The Portuguese named them Dom João, Montanha and Lapa. Later the islands became known in Chinese as Xiao (Little) Hengqin, Da (Big) Hengqin and Wanzai, respectively. The two Hengqins, which faced Coloane and Taipa, were eventually joined by land reclamation to form a single island while Wanzai, a mere few hundred metres from Macau’s Inner Harbour (Porto Interior), saw its inclines levelled enough to become a peninsula.
2022 August 7, Farah Master, “Macau returns to mass COVID testing after case in neighbouring Chinese city Zhuhai”, in Kenneth Maxwell, editor, Reuters[31], archived from the original on 08 August 2022[32]:
Thousands of residents living near Macau's border to Zhuhai and the Taipa district, which sits alongside the city's Las Vegas-style Cotai strip, must do official nucleic acid tests, the government said.
