Mawan

See also: mawan

English

Proper noun

Mawan

1. Alternative form of Ma Wan
   • 1951, Hydropac Message Summary: Contains All Hydropacs in Effect‎^[1], Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 14:

     Ships leaving Hong Kong pass to the westward of Mawan Island; thence through the searched channel 1,000 yards either side of a centerline between points (a) and (e).

   • 1985, Official Report of the Australian Parliamentary Delegation to the People's Republic of China Led by the President of the Senate, Senator the Honourable Douglas McClelland‎^[2], →OCLC, page 28:

     Some agricultural projects are fully developed, including dairy farming to serve the Hong Kong market. Future plans include petrochemicals at Mawan and onshore oil service industries and port facilities in Chinwan to serve the developing oil fields of the South China Sea.

   • 2001, Q. W. Zhang, T. Y. P. Chang, C. C. Chang, “Finite-Element Model Updating for the Kap Shui Mun Cable-Stayed Bridge”, in Journal of Bridge Engineering‎^[3], volume 6, number 4, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 285:

     The Kap Shui Mun Bridge (Fig. 1), located between the islands of Lantau and Mawan in Hong Kong, is the world’s longest cable-stayed bridge that carries both road and railway traffic.

   • 2005, China Tourism‎^[4], numbers 297-300, →OCLC, page 52:

     Wong's interest in archaeology began in her second year in university, when she visited the remains from Neolithic Age in Mawan, Hong Kong, one of the top ten archaeologist discoveries in 1997.

   • 2021, Bridge Engineering Handbook‎^[5], volume 3, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 63-35:

     Tsing Ma Bridge (Figure 63.31), a highway-railway bipurpose suspension bridge on the freeway between the new airport and the urban district, connecting the Tsing Yi Island and Mawan Island in Hong Kong, is the world's longest of its kind.

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

Anagrams

• aw man