Huatung Valley

English

Etymology

Partial calque of Mandarin 花東縱谷 (Huādōng Zònggǔ), derived from Wade–Giles romanization: Hua¹-tung¹ Tsung⁴-ku³.

Proper noun

Huatung Valley

1. Alternative form of Huadong Valley
   • 2000, BirdLife International, “Globally threatened species”, in Threatened Birds of the World‎^[1], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 420:

     Pycnonotus taivanus is endemic to Taiwan. It is found in eastern Taiwan in the coastal plains and hills of Haulien^{[sic – meaning Hualien]} county and Taitung county, in the Huatung valley and as far west as Litao and north to Chungta and Hojen, in southern Taiwan at Hengchun and Kenting in southern Pingtung county, and as far north as Fangshan and Fengkang on the south-west coast of Taiwan.

   • 2004 July 14, Yu-Tzu Chiu, “Despite new tools,seismology remains a shaky science”, in Taipei Times‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2004-09-10, Taiwan News, page 4‎^[3]:

     Lee said that research suggests the Philippines and Eurasia plates are converging at a speed of 8cm per year. However, Lee's continuous monitoring of the plate suture zone in the Huatung Valley connecting Hualien and Taitung suggests that the fault has contracted between 15cm and 20cm annually over the past five years.

   • 2020 August 10, Taiwan Tourism Bureau, “Bringing Art to A Region of Beauty”, in Taiwan Business Topics, American Chamber of Commerce in Taiwan‎^[4], archived from the original on 30 September 2020‎^[5]:

     The boundary between the two plates runs north-south through the East Rift Valley, also known as the Huatung Valley or the Longitudinal Valley.