Sugarloaf Island

English

Etymology

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Proper noun

Sugarloaf Island

1. (obsolete) An island in Sugarloaf Channel, Shantou, Guangdong, China, located in the Port of Shantou and having a lighthouse.

   Synonym: Luyu

   Coordinate term: Double Island

   • 1943, “PORT SWATOW”, in Sailing Directions for the Coast of China‎^[1], U.S. Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 524:

     The tidal currents set directly through Sugarloaf Channel, except northwestward of Sugarloaf Island where a branch of the outgoing current runs along the northern shore of the island.

   • 1945, China Proper‎^[2], volume III, Naval Intelligence Division, →OCLC, page 266:

     Luyu channel, south of the two islets Luyu (Sugarloaf island) and Muyu (Double island), is about 300 yards wide with depth of 6 to 11 fm. in the fairway; north of the islands is the less frequented Eastern channel with depths of 3½ to 8 fm.

   • 2008, Donald M. Kehn Jr., A Blue Sea of Blood‎^[3], Zenith Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 44:

     Duly relieved, Edsall the next day stood out at 11:30, conned by a local pilot, Mr. Woods. She steamed down the coast past Sugarloaf Island, Good Cape Lighthouse, Bill and Green islands, and Breaker Point Lighthouse to anchor off South Nine Pin Island (Nam Kwo Chau), near the main shipping lanes, east of the British Crown Colony at Hong Kong.

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

Translations

island in Shantou

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鹿嶼／鹿屿 (Lùyǔ/Lùxù)

Further reading

• Sailing Directions for the Coast of China, fourth edition, U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office, 1943, page 520