Pei-kan

See also: Peikan

English

Map including 北竿塘 PEI-KAN-T'ANG (ISLAND) (AMS, 1954)

Etymology

From Mandarin 北竿 (Běigān), Wade–Giles romanization: Pei³-kan¹.

Proper noun

Pei-kan

1. Alternative form of Beigan (island)
   • [1954, “China Sea Pilot”, in Great Britain Hydrographic Department‎^[1], 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^[2], 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^[3], 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^{[sic – meaning Changhsu]} Islands) are heavily fortified Nationalist strongholds.

   • 1998, “Matsu”, in Saul B. Cohen, editor, The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], 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^[5], 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.

Translations

Beigan — see Beigan

Anagrams

• Kanipe, kaipen