Quelpaert
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[edit]Quelpaert
- (obsolete) Jeju, an island in South Korea.
- 1885, William Elliot Griffis, “The Kind Corean Governor”, in Corea, Without and Within: Chapters on Corean History, Manners and Religion with Hendrick Hamel's Narrative of Captivity and Travels in Corea, Annotated[1], 2nd edition, Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication, →OCLC, page 48:
- At night they gave us more rice to eat ; and our master, having made an observation, found we were in the island of Quelpaert, which is thirty-three degrees thirty-two minutes of latitude.