Citations:Woody Island

English citations of Woody Island

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• 1837, Nathaniel Bowditch, “Latitudes and Longitudes.”, in The New American Practical Navigator‎^[1], Ninth New Stereotype edition, New-York: E. & G. W. Blunt, →OCLC, page 365:

  XLIII. Islands and Shoals in the CHINA SEA. […]
  Paracels. […]
  Woody Island..........16 50 112 18

• 1971 July 7, “Peking Building New Sea Base?”, in The Salem News‎^[2], volume 83, number 160, Salem, Ohio, sourced from AP, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1, column 1:

  U.S. cameras have photo­graphed construction of a ship berthing area, a jetty and more than 50 buildings, as well as dredging of a channel at Woody Island, one of the largest of the group.
  Chinese convoys are reported sailing frequently from the port of Yulin on Hainan Island's south coast to Woody Island, about 200 miles to the southeast.
  Sources said the Chinese have maintained a small obser­vation and communications site on Woody Island for years and have stationed some of their people on Lincoln Island, about 50 miles southwest of Woody.

• 1974, “A Study entitled, "Legal Status of the Paracel and the Spratly Islands, prepared by Hungdah Chiu, Research Associate, Harvard Law School; Visiting Associate Porfessor, University of Maryland School of Law, 1974-1975; L.L. B., National Taiwan University, 1958; S.J.D., Harvard University, 1965 and Choon-ho Park, Research Fellow, Harvard University Law School; B.A., Seoul National University, 1959; Ph. D., Faculty of Law, Edinburgh University, 1971”, in Oil and Asian Rivals: Sino-Soviet conflict; Japan and the Oil Crisis‎^[3], Washington: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, pages 444, 458:

  In November 1946, the ROC government sent a naval contingent, with officials from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Kuangtung Provincial Government, to take over the islands. This group of officials made a survey of each of the major islands. Garrison forces were subsequently stationed in several islands of the Paracel and the Spratly Islands. Chinese territorial stone tablets were erected on Yung-hsing Island (Woody Island) and Taiping Island (Itu Aba Island). […]
  The Paracel Islands (Hsisha ch'ün-tao) is an archipelago consisting of 15 islands, 5 reefs, 5 banks, 4 sands, and a rock, all clustered in three groups. The largest island (in the four archipelagoes of the South China Sea), Woody Island (Ying-hsing-tao^{[sic – meaning Yung-hsing-tao]}), situated on the northeast, is about 1,950 meters long and 1,350 meters wide. The three islands on which the military clash took place between the PRC and the RVN in January 1974 are much smaller than Woody Island, being only 800, 400, and 1,400 meters long respectively.

• 2012 April 10, “China stakes claim to islands with "Princess Coconut" voyage”, in Reuters‎^[4], archived from the original on March 18, 2024, Business:

  Initial plans call for ships to visit Woody Island, called Yongxing Island by China, though tourists would not be allowed to leave their boat.

• 2014 May 20, Gabriel Domínguez, “Beijing 'prepared to defend rights' in South China Sea”, in Deutsche Welle‎^[5], archived from the original on October 25, 2019, Asia‎^[6]:

  Recently, Professor Sam Bateman, a Senior Fellow in the Maritime Security Programme at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, presented another line of argument. He pointed out that China's oil rig is 120 miles from Vietnam's coast, and 80 miles from China's Woody (Yongxing) Island which is unquestionably subject to the island regime under the current UNCLOS provisions, and consequently entitled to its own EEZ and continental shelf.

• 2014 September 9, “Exhibition of Historical Archives on the Southern Territories of the Republic of China: A Chronology of Major Events”, in Kuomintang‎^[7], archived from the original on June 03, 2020, Opinions‎^[8]:

  President Chiang Kai-shek ordered that a platoon of troops be stationed on the Paracel Islands and the Spratly Islands within one month, and that an inspection of the Paracel Islands and the Spratly Islands be carried out simultaneously. Yao Ruyu (姚汝鈺), an ROC Navy Captain, led ROCS Yung-hsing (永興號) and ROCS Chung-chien (中建號) to take over the Paracel Islands. Lin Zun (林遵), an ROC Navy Captain, led ROCS Tai-ping (太平號) and ROCS Chung-Yeh (中業號) to the Taiping Island in the South China Sea to accomplish their mission of taking over the Spratly Islands.
  1947: After French troops forcibly landed on the Coral Island in the Paracel Islands, President Chiang Kai-shek ordered the ROC Foreign Ministry to lodge a protest against the French government. The ROC National Government approved the renaming of all islands in the Paracel Islands and the Spratly Islands, renaming Woody Island (武德島) to Yongxing Island (永興島) and Long Island (長島) to Taiping Island (太平島). The ROC Navy administered the Pratas Islands, the Paracel Islands and the Spratly Islands, and established three Administration Offices of the Pratas Islands, the Paracel Islands and the Spratly Islands.

• 2018 July 2, “Recent developments surrounding the South China Sea”, in AP News‎^[9], archived from the original on March 21, 2024‎^[10]:

  China has reportedly deployed anti-ship and surface-to-air missiles, along with electronic jammers and other equipment, on islands it built on disputed reefs in the Spratly Islands, some of which have runways.
  It also landed a bomber aircraft on Woody Island in the Paracels group, sparking alarm among rival claimants and the United States. Washington has no territorial claims in the region but has declared that freedom of navigation and overflight in the waters is in U.S. national interest.

• 2020 May 24, Steven Lee Myers, “Why China’s Move to Rein in Hong Kong is Just the Start”, in The New York Times‎^[11], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on May 24, 2020, Asia Pacific‎^[12]:

  In April, it created two new administrative districts to govern the islands it controls in the Paracel and Spratly chains. China’s Navy also said that it had succeeded it growing cabbage and other vegetables in the sand of Woody Island, helping to feed the growing number of troops stationed there.