Oluanpi

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Mandarin 鵝鑾鼻 (Éluánbí) Wade–Giles romanization: O²-luan²-pi².

Proper noun

Oluanpi

1. Alternative form of Eluanbi
   • 1979 November, Irene Corbally Kuhn, “Gourmet Holidays Taiwan”, in Gourmet‎^[1], volume XXXIX, number 11, page 164:

     Oluanpi's lighthouse looks toward Lanyu, or Orchid Island, a tiny, rocky protuberance sixty-eight miles to the southeast and important because it is the home of the Yami, the smallest and most primitive tribe of aborigines in Taiwan.

   • 1981 August 30, “Progress without pollution in Pingtung county”, in 自由中國週報 [Free China Weekly]‎^[2], volume XXII, number 34, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2, column 1:

     The Pingtung county government has assisted district offices under its jurisdiction to develop the scenic Oluanpi area close to Kenting, including the rock formations at Maopitou and Chialoshui.

   • 1982 October, Geoff Crowther, “Taiwan - Around the Country”, in Korea & Taiwan: A Travel Survival Kit (Lonely Planet)‎^[3], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 163, column 1:

     Kenting has the warmest sea and best beaches in Taiwan. It’s also a mecca for those who never tire of that mysterious fascination for the extremities of islands and continents since it’s within a few minutes’ bus ride of Oluanpi at the southern tip of Taiwan.

   • 1994, Roger Grigsby, Taiwan, Hong Kong, China's East Coast (China by Bike)‎^[4], The Mountaineers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 101:

     Ride past Kenting to Oluanpi to see coral formations and the lighthouse.

   • 1994 July, Robert Storey, “South-West Taiwan”, in Taiwan - A Travel Survival Kit‎^[5], 3rd edition, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 229, column 1:

     The southernmost tip of Taiwan is eight km south-east of Kenting. Oluanpi is known for its coral gardens and lighthouse.

   • 2003, Vivien Kim, editor, Taiwan (Insight Guides)‎^[6], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 229:

     Stretching from north of Tainan to the island’s southernmost tip at Oluanpi, southwest Taiwan is a world far removed from the crowded north and the heavily cultivated central plains area.

   • 2010 October 27, “Kaohsiung City: One dead, 12 missing after freighter capsizes off Oluanpi”, in Taiwan News‎^[7], archived from the original on 24 October 2021:

     Despite stormy weather, rescuers continued to search the area where the freighter sank -- about 78 nautical miles south of Oluanpi -- in the hope that the missing crew members could be snatched from the sea water within the "golden" 72-hour period, the official surnamed Chen said.

   • 2015 April 5, “Typhoon Maysak downgraded to tropical depression”, in Focus Taiwan‎^[8], archived from the original on 04 December 2021, Society‎^[9]:

     Former Typhoon Maysak was reported to have weakened into a tropical depression as of 2 p.m. Sunday and was located about 450 kilometers south of Oluanpi (鵝鑾鼻), Taiwan's southernmost tip, moving northwest at 20 kph, according to the Central Weather Bureau (CWB).

   • 2022 September 11, “Sea warning likely for Typhoon Muifa, as storm approaches”, in Taipei Times‎^[10], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 September 2022, Front Page, page 1‎^[11]:

     As of 6pm yesterday, Muifa was 515km east of Oluanpi (鵝鑾鼻), Taiwan’s southernmost point, and was moving northwest at 11kph, bureau data showed.

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

Further reading

• Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Olwanpi, Cape, or Cape Oluanpi”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎^[12], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1379, column 1
• Oluanpi, O-luan-pi, Eluanbi at Google Ngram Viewer
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Oluanpi, Cape”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[13], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2282, column 2: “Sometimes spelled Olwanpi, Olanpi, or Olwanpi.”