Breaker Point
English
Map including Breaker Point (1816) (bottom left)
Proper noun
Breaker Point
- (obsolete) A point in Shantou, Guangdong, China
- 1882, Lindley, Augustus F., “Caught by Chinese Rebels”, in A Cruise in Chinese Waters. Being the Log of "The Fortuna.", 4th edition, Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co, OCLC 2823704, pages 144-145:
- We had been dashing along before the gale at fully eleven knots an hour, when we went upon some unknown rock off Breaker Point—a projecting headland some sixty miles south of Swatow—so the terrible force with which we struck may easily be imagined.
- 2016, Bickers, Robert, The Scramble for China: Foreign Devils in the Qing Empire, 1832-1914, →ISBN, OCLC 1004978207, page :
- At the 1883 International Fisheries Exhibition in London, the Customs-organized Chinese display included a model of the 120-foot iron tower for Breaker Point, south of Shantou, and 'a chart showing the Lights on the coast of China', which Prime Minister W. E. Gladstone 'seemed to be much struck with'.
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Translations
island in Shantou
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