Heixiazi Dao
Heixiazi Dao ( Chinese 黑瞎子島 / 黑瞎子岛 , Pinyin Hēixiāzǐ dǎo , literally " Asiatic -Insel" also: Chinese 撫遠三角洲 / 抚远三角洲 , Pinyin Fǔyuǎn Sānjiǎo Zhou , "Fuyuaner Triangle Island"; Russian Большой Уссурийский , ie Bolshoi Ussurijski Island; Manjurian: Morin Uju , ie "horse head") is a three-part island in the district of Fuyuan in the district-free city of Jiamusi in the northeast Chinese province of Heilongjiang and partly in the Russian region of Khabarovsk .
history
Heixiazi Dao was traditionally and undisputedly Chinese territory until the Soviet Union occupied the island in the course of the Soviet-Chinese border war in 1929. In the "Supplementary Agreement on the Eastern Part of the Sino-Russian Border between the People's Republic of China and the Russian Federation" of October 14, 2004, Russia undertook to return the western half of Heixiazi Dao to China.
In return, China agreed not to raise the demand for the return of the eastern part of the island and to recognize the emerging border as binding under international law. After extensive surveying and demarcation work by a mixed Chinese-Russian commission, the return was completed on October 14, 2008. In the Chinese part of the island, two nature reserves have now been created and the infrastructure created for intensive tourist use.
geography
Heixiazi Dao lies elongated in the middle reaches of the Amur (Heilong Jiang) directly in front of the mouth of the Ussuri , which, coming from the south, meets the island approximately in the middle and is deflected by it in an easterly direction. Coming from the west, only a narrow tributary of the Amur, the Tongjiangzi (通 江 子), meets the Ussuri, which initially flows past the island almost 30 km east, and then turns north again directly in front of the city center of Khabarovsk unites directly with the main Amur river, which meets it from the west.
The three parts of the island, which are only separated from each other by narrow, low-flow river branches , are called Yinlong Dao ( Chinese 銀龍 島 / 银龙 岛 , Pinyin Yinlong Dǎo , Russian: Тарабаров (Tarabárow)), Heixiazi Dao and Mingyue Dao ( Chinese 明月 島 / 明月 岛 , Pinyin Mingyue Dǎo , literally: "Bright Moon Island"). You are surrounded by over 90 small and tiny river islands, the most important of which are Xiaohe Dao (小河 岛), Feng Dao (枫 岛), Juhua Dao (菊花 岛), Dongjia Dao (东家 岛), Qi Dao (旗 岛), and Jiuliang Dao (久 良 岛) are. The total land area of the three-part main island and the small secondary islands is around 350 km² in the dry season, and only around 327 km² during floods. Heixiazi Dao extends from west to east over 58.85 km, the largest north-south extension in the center of the island is a good 14 km. The highest peaks on the island do not exceed 40 meters.
The new international border runs north-south on the central part of the island, so that the western Yinlong Dao was completely returned to China, while the eastern Mingyue Dao remained completely in Russia. The eponymous middle part of the island is divided into a slightly larger Russian part in the east and a slightly smaller Chinese part in the west. This created one of only two places where the Sino-Russian land border runs over an island. The land area of the part of the Heixiazi Dao returned to China is about 172 km² at average water levels.
See also
Web links
- Heixiazi Dao on Fuyuan County Government website - Chinese
- Heixiazi Dao Return to China News Website - Chinese
credentials
- ↑ World's biggest country becomes a little bit smaller - Russia Today, October 2008 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ RIA Novosti
Coordinates: 48 ° 20 ' N , 134 ° 46' E