Spratly Islands
English
Etymology
Named after the 19th-century British whaling captain Richard Spratly, who sighted Spratly Island in 1843.
Pronunciation
- enPR: sprǎtʹlē
Proper noun
Spratly Islands
- A group of islands, atolls, reefs, and cays in the South China Sea.
- 1945 January 20, “Seven New Year's Days”, in Army Talks, volume III, number 2, page 5:
- In the eastern hemisphere the Japanese occupied the island of Hainan off French Indo-China; annexed the Spratly islands further south, between Indo-China and Borneo; and continued local gains in north China.
- 1975 May 11, “ROC still holds Spratly Islands; no Red challenge”, in Free China Weekly, volume XVI, number 18, Taipei, ISSN 0016-0318, OCLC 1786626, page 1:
- The Spratly Islands in the South China Sea are still occupied by troops of the Republic of China, according to Major General Li Chang-hao, spokesman of the Ministry of National Defense.
- 2015 May 21, “Chinese navy warns off U.S. reconnaissance plane over Spratlys”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 27 September 2022, Cross-Strait:
- A United States P8A surveillance aircraft flying near the disputed Spratly islands in the South China Sea on May 20 was asked by the Chinese navy to leave the area.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Spratly Islands.
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Synonyms
- Spratlys
- (from Filipino) Kalayaan
- (from Mandarin Chinese) Nansha
- (from Vietnamese) Truong Sa
Translations
islands
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Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Spratly Islands or Nansha Islands”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 98-071262, OCLC 164337564, page 3003, column 1
- “Spratly Islands, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “Spratly Islands”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary