Jibei Island
Jibei Island (Chipei Island[1]; Chinese: 吉貝嶼; pinyin: Jíbèi Yǔ; Wade–Giles: Chi2-pei4 Yü3) is an island in Baisha Township, Penghu County (the Pescadores), Taiwan.[2][3]
![]() | |
![]() ![]() Jibei Island | |
Geography | |
---|---|
Location | Baisha, Penghu (the Pescadores), Taiwan |
Coordinates | 23.745°N 119.600°E |
Area | 3.05 km2 (1.18 sq mi) |
Geology
![](../I/m/Txu-pclmaps-oclc-6550512-kitsubai-to-2018-iii.jpg)
Map of Jibei Island (labeled as Kitsubai-tō (Kichigai-tō)) and surrounding area (1944)
![](../I/m/Txu-oclc-6557994-index-451.jpg)
Map including Jibei Island (labeled as CHI-PEI HSÜ (KITSUBAI-SHO) 吉貝嶼) (1950)
The island is located 5.5 km off of Penghu Island with a size of 3.05 km2.
Transportation
The island houses the Jibei wharf, with destination to Chikan wharf and Houliao wharf at Baisha island.[4]
gollark: Also, my IP is public knowledge.
gollark: It's impressive that people just give their actual name to a random website just because it asks for it.
gollark: I utilize the correctiscient graammaticals in my writting.
gollark: Development of the incident report system continues.
gollark: Anyway, I plan to add the ability to search by device (which is technically just a hash of assorted identifying data), search by flag, and search by time.
See also
References
- Robert Kelly; Joshua Samuel Brown, eds. (March 2011). Taiwan. Lonely Planet (8 ed.). Singapore. pp. 292, 301. ISBN 9781741790436.
Chipei Island{...}CHIPEI 吉貝
With its lovely sand-shell beaches, Chipei (Jíbèi) buzzes with tourists in the summer but shuts down almost completely in the winter. - "Jibei Yu: Taiwan". Geographical names. 2012. Retrieved 31 March 2016.
- "GeoNames Search". Geographic Names Database. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, USA. Retrieved 31 March 2016.
- https://www.travelking.com.tw/eng/tourguide/scenery309.html
![]() |
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Jibei Island. |
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.