Pengjia
See also: péngjià
English
Alternative forms
- (from Wade–Giles) Pengchia, P'eng-chia
Etymology
From the pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 彭佳 (Péngjiā).
Proper noun
Pengjia
- An islet in Zhongzheng district, Keelung, Taiwan
- [1996, Vivian-Lee Nyitray, “The Sea Goddess and the Goddess of Democracy”, in The Annual Review of Women in World Religions, volume IV, State University of New York Press, →ISBN, ISSN 1056-4578, OCLC 36578227, OL 7801771M, page 164:
- At exactly 9:00 a.m. on May 5, 1989, 220 fishermen in nineteen boats sailed out from Su-ao Harbor in I-lan County on Taiwan's east coast; officially, they were going to fish the waters off P'eng-chia, an island seventy nautical miles north of Taiwan.]
- 2009, High-Resolution Hydrographic Surveys near the Shelfbreak in the East China Sea: Joint Studies with National Taiwan University as Part of the Quantifying, Predicting, and Exploiting Uncertainty DRI, page 2:
- In the QPE study area, we observed initially that there was a high degree of small-scale salinity and temperature features likely associated with the typhoon-enhanced river runoff (Figure 1). In addition, there was substantial cooling in the area (up to 6 degrees C. as measured at Pengjia Island) after the typhoon passed by.
- 2016 April 9, “President Ma visits Pengjia Islet”, in Office of the President Republic of China (Taiwan), archived from the original on 17 January 2021, retrieved 17 January 2021:
- At the noon hour on April 9, President Ma Ying-jeou flew by helicopter to Pengjia Islet, where he unveiled a monument inscribed with an eight-character Chinese phrase meaning "peace in the South China Sea and our national territory secure forever." While there, the president delivered a speech in which he explained the geographic and historical relationship between the Diaoyutai Islands and Taiwan's "three northern islets" (Pengjia Islet, Mianhua Islet, and Huaping Islet), and reiterated the government's firm resolve to pursue regional peace and create "Peace in the Three Seas."
- 2018, “ASIA & OCEANIA”, in Luke Einoder, editor, Pacific Seabirds, volume 45, number 2, page 75:
- The Chinese Wild Bird Federation (CWBF) is also conducting a feasibility study on a project to attract Short-tailed Albatross (Phoebastria albatrus) to an island in their former range, Pengjia Island, north of Taiwan proper. As there are already populations on the nearby Diaoyutai Islands, the use of decoys and vocalizations are being explored to get the globally threatened species to return to previous breeding colonies. In the 1950's Pengjia Island used to be home to millions of breeding albatross every year.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Pengjia.
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Translations
islet
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