Ulleungdo

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Korean 울릉도(鬱陵島) (Ulleungdo).

Proper noun

Ulleungdo

2. An island in Ulleung, North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea.

   Synonyms: Ulleung, (obsolete) Dagelet, Argonaut

   • 2015 July 7, Choe Sang-Hun, “3 North Korean Sailors Defect to South After Ship Strays”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on July 07, 2015, Asia Pacific‎^[2]:

     A North Korean ship with five sailors on board was found adrift on Saturday in waters near Ulleungdo, an island off the northeast coast of South Korea, the Unification Ministry in the South said in a news release. Their ship was sinking when the South Korean Coast Guard came to their rescue, the statement said.

Translations

island

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鬱陵／郁陵 (Yùlíng), 鬱陵島／郁陵岛

• Korean: 울릉(鬱陵) (Ulleung), 울릉도(鬱陵島) (Ulleungdo)