Coloane

English

Map including Coloane (Lu Wan) 路環 (AMS, 1954)

Etymology

Probably from Cantonese 過路環／过路环 (gwo3 lou6 waan4), a Qing-era name of the sea off the southwest coast of Coloane, via Portuguese.

Proper noun

Coloane

1. An island in southern Macau.
   • 1899, “Portugal”, in Appletons' Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1898 (Third Series)‎^[1], volume III (XXXVIII), New York: D. Appleton and Company, page 649, column 2:

     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.

   • 1910, Francis J. Bacchus, “Macao”, in The Catholic Encyclopedia‎^[2], volume IX, New York: Robert Appleton Company, page 482, column 1:

     The Catholic being the state religion of Portugal, the prisons and the five government hospitals at Macao and in Portuguese Timor are all open to the ministrations of Catholic priests and sisters; three of these hospitals have chaplains of their own. The government also maintains on the islands of Coloane and Dom João, near Macao, two leperhouses, which are frequently visited by missionaries and sisters.

   • 1953 May, George W. Long, “Macau, a Hole in the Bamboo Curtain”, in National Geographic Magazine‎^[3], volume CIII, number 5, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 679, column 1:

     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.

   • 1960 September 3, “3 Die Fleeing Reds”, in The Lincoln Star‎^[4], volume 58, number 290, Lincoln, Nebraska, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5, column 7:

     Macao (UPI) — Three Chinese children were drowned when a sampan with 12 Chinese aboard sank while fleeing Communist China, it was learned. The 9 adults swam to safety on Coloane island off this Portuguese enclave.

   • 1986 January 12, Rudy Maxa, “Magical Macau, Gateway to China”, in The Washington Post‎^[5], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 September 2023:

     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.

   • 2005 July 8, Alex Frew McMillan, “In Macao, developers look to property as a sure bet”, in The New York Times‎^[6], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 September 2023, Real Estate‎^[7]:

     Coloane, the southernmost of Macao's two islands, which is connected to the Macao peninsula by bridges and a causeway.

   • 2015 February 8, Farah Master, “In Macau, casino titans join China reform wagon”, in Reuters‎^[8], archived from the original on 16 September 2023, CYCLICAL CONSUMER GOODS‎^[9]:

     Over the next three years, the operators, including Melco Crown, SJM Holdings Ltd, Galaxy Entertainment Group and MGM China Holdings, will open new resorts on the Cotai strip, a reclaimed stretch of land between the bustling main peninsula of Macau and Coloane island, which is modelled on the Las Vegas strip.

   • 2017 May, Emily Matchar, Piera Chen, “Macau”, in Hong Kong (Lonely Planet)‎^[10], 17th edition, Lonely Planet Global Limited, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 192:

     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).

   • 2021 November 21, “On Chinese islands next to Macau, great stories of pirates, typhoons and war played out”, in South China Morning Post‎^[11], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 November 2021‎^[12]:

     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.

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

Derived terms

• Cotai

Translations

island

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 路環／路环 (lou⁶ waan⁴)

  Mandarin: 路環／路环 (Lùhuán)

Further reading

• Coloane at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.