Double Island

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Double Island

1. An island of Sugarloaf Channel, Shantou, Guangdong, China, located inwards after Sugarloaf Island and larger than it.

   Synonyms: Masu, Mayu

   Coordinate term: Sugarloaf Island

   • 1891 August, S. B. Partridge, “American Baptist Mission, Swatow, China.”, in The Baptist Missionary Magazine‎^[1], volume LXXI, number 8, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 370:

     At the entrance of the bay on which Swatow is located, there is a small island called Double Island, on which foreigners secured a foothold before the port was opened to the outside world.

   • [1987, Manly Chin, China The Beautiful [中國風光攝影集]‎^[2], Reader's Digest Association Far East Limited, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 310:

     The Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the most romantic events on the Chinese spiritual calendar - a time to gaze at and worship the beauty of the full moon. I think I captured the reverence and lyricism of the mid-autumn moon in this shot off Mayu Island in Shantou.]

   • 1998, Frances Wood, “Private Life and the Social Round”, in No Dogs and Not Many Chinese: Treaty Port Life in China, 1843-1943‎^[3], John Murray, published 2000, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 138:

     In the 1890s, for no known reason, he took against his colleagues, the Swatow pilots stationed at Double Island, and would walk for miles along the coast to intercept incoming vessels before they could reach the official pilots.

   • 2003, Hudson Taylor, “Called to Swatow”, in Looking Back: An Autobiography‎^[4] (Missions), OMF International, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 84–85:

     In Shanghai we met a Christian captain who had been trading at Swatow. He made a strong case for the needs of that area. British merchants lived on Double Island, and sold opium.

   • 2008, Donald M. Kehn Jr., “Flushdeckers”, in A Blue Sea of Blood: Deciphering the Mysterious Fate of the USS Edsall‎^[5], Zenith Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 43:

     The truth, however, is that the Edsall was not then in the Amoy-Kulangsu area but instead spent all of the first half of May 1939 at Swatow (Shantou), China, well to the south. Anchored near Double Island, Edsall observed Japanese aerial attacks in support of their ground offensive in the region.

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