Nei Lingding Dao
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| Waters | South China Sea | |
| Geographical location | 22 ° 25 ' N , 113 ° 48' E | |
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| Highest elevation | 340.9 m | |
Nei Lingding Dao ( German inner lonely island , 内 伶仃 岛 Nèi Língdīng Dǎo ), also Latinized: Lintin , is an island in the Nanshan district of the sub-provincial city of Shenzhen . It is located northeast of Macau in the Pearl River Delta and owes its name to the fact that it only consists of a single, steep mountain. The island has an area of 9.2 km². Its highest point is the Jianfeng Shan (尖峰 山) with 340.9 m . It is located in the middle of a 554 hectare nature reserve with a largely untouched South Asian tropical forest (619 protected plant and numerous animal species, including a macaque population of around 900 heads , and the Malay pangolin ).
history
The Portuguese under Jorge Álvares landed on Nei Lingding Dao in May 1513 when they first reached the Chinese coast. At the time of the First Opium War , it served the Europeans as a storage facility for the narcotics they then imported to China.
Footnotes
- ↑ Shenzhen News from September 26, 2009 - Article reporting the transfer of administrative sovereignty to the city of Shenzhen (Chinese) ( Memento of the original from September 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Maurice Collins: Foreign Mud: Being an Account of the Opium Imbroglio at Canton in the 1830's and the Anglo-Chinese War That Followed . 1964, p. 30 .
- ↑ Jonathan D. Spence: China's Path to Modernity . 1995, p. 189 f .
