Quelpart
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Quelpart
- (obsolete) Jeju, an island of South Korea.
- 1905, H. B. Hulbert, “The Island of Quelpart.”, in Bulletin of the American Geographical Society, volume XXXVII, number 7, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 396:
- The island of Quelpart lies some fifty miles off the southern coast of the Korean mainland, but only thirty from the outer edge of the line of islands that fringe the coast of the peninsula. It ism in all probability, geologically one with the range of mountains which forms the backbone of Korea, and which finally sinks beneath the waters of the sea off its southern coast.
- 1914 April, Malcolm P. Anderson, “Forty Days in Quelpart Island”, in Overland Monthly[1], volume LXIII, number 4, San Francisco, →OCLC, page 392, column 1:
- LATE in the afternoon of an August day, accompanied by my Japanese interpreter, Ichikawa, and my Korean servant, King, I boarded a little steamer in the harbor of Mokpo, bound for the remote island of Quelpart, which lies off the southern coast of Korea.
- 1968 July 1, Alan Solem, “"Ptychodon" misoolensis ADAM and VAN BENTHEM JUTTING, 1939, a new Guinea strobilopsid land snail and review of the genus Enteroplax.”, in The Veliger, volume 11, number 1, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 24, column 2:
- Two Asian groups complete the known taxa. The section Eostrobilops PILSBRY, 1927, consists of 4 species — Strobilops nipponica PILSBRY, 1927 from Yonezawa, Uzen, Japan; S. hirasei PILSBRY, 1927 from Cheju, Quelpart Island, Korea; S. coreana PILSBRY, 1927, from Pyong-Yang, North Korea; and S. diodontina HEUDE, 1885 from Tchen-k’eou, China (probably is Ch’êng-k’ou, northeast Ssuch’uan Province = Szechwan, at about 108° 47ʹ long., 31° 56ʹ lat.).