Mudou Island (Chinese: 目斗嶼; pinyin: Mùdǒu Yǔ) is an island in Baisha Township, Penghu County, Taiwan.[1][2] It is in the Taiwan Strait off the west coast of Taiwan. The island was formed from plateau basalt.
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  Mudou Island | |
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| Location | Baisha, Penghu, Taiwan |
| Coordinates | 23°47′10″N 119°36′00″E / 23.786°N 119.600°E |
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Republic of China (Taiwan) | |
Name
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The island was named Ba̍k-táu-sū (墨斗嶼) at first because the shape resembles an ink marker of a carpenter. Japanese colonizer transferred the name from 墨斗 to 目斗, which are pronounced the same in Taiwanese.[3]
See also
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edit- ^ "Mudou Yu: Taiwan". Geographical names. 2012. Retrieved 31 March 2016.
- ^ "GeoNames Search". Geographic Names Database. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, USA. Retrieved 31 March 2016.
- ^ 陳英俊; 高啟進; 林文鎮; 郭金龍 (December 2010). 紀麗美 (ed.). 2010澎湖縣文化資產手冊. 澎湖縣馬公市: 澎湖縣政府文化局. pp. 第144頁. ISBN 978-986-02-6279-7. Archived from the original on 2021-06-24. Retrieved 2021-06-22.
External links
edit- 目斗嶼燈塔 ('Mudou Island Lighthouse') (in Chinese)
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