Citations:Sugarloaf Island

English citations of Sugarloaf Island

• 1892 January 8, “THE LOSS OF THE TONGSHAN AND YUNNAN.”, in North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette‎^[1], volume XLVIII, number 1275, Shanghai, →OCLC, page 20, column 3:

  The captain and officers of the Yunnan have gone from Swatow to Shanghai, in the B. & S steamer Kweiyang, where a Court of Inquiry into the loss of their ship will be held.
  The causes of the wreck of the Yunnan are quite inexplicable. The lights on the Cape of Good Hope and Sugarloaf Island are clearly visible and the coast all along is well defined.

• 1943, “PORT SWATOW”, in Sailing Directions for the Coast of China‎^[2], U.S. Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 524:

  The tidal currents set directly through Sugarloaf Channel, except northwestward of Sugarloaf Island where a branch of the outgoing current runs along the northern shore of the island.

• 1945, China Proper‎^[3], volume III, Naval Intelligence Division, →OCLC, page 266:

  Luyu channel, south of the two islets Luyu (Sugarloaf island) and Muyu (Double island), is about 300 yards wide with depth of 6 to 11 fm. in the fairway; north of the islands is the less frequented Eastern channel with depths of 3½ to 8 fm.

• 2008, Donald M. Kehn Jr., A Blue Sea of Blood‎^[4], Zenith Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 44:

  Duly relieved, Edsall the next day stood out at 11:30, conned by a local pilot, Mr. Woods. She steamed down the coast past Sugarloaf Island, Good Cape Lighthouse, Bill and Green islands, and Breaker Point Lighthouse to anchor off South Nine Pin Island (Nam Kwo Chau), near the main shipping lanes, east of the British Crown Colony at Hong Kong.

• [2013 October 21, Li Qian, “Breast implant helps identify murdered, dismembered model”, in Shanghai Daily‎^[5], archived from the original on 14 January 2024, Nation‎^[6]:

  Parts of Que’s dismembered body were found stuffed inside a suitcase floating on the sea near Luyu Island of Shantou City by two fishermen on June 30, the newspaper reported.]