Scarborough Reef
| Scarborough Reef | ||
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| Waters | South China Sea | |
| Geographical location | 15 ° 8 ′ N , 117 ° 46 ′ E | |
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| Number of islands | 2 larger and numerous smaller coral sticks | |
| Main island | Nanyan (South Rock) |
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| length | 19 km | |
| width | 13 km | |
| Land area | 2 ha | |
| Lagoon area | 130 km² | |
| total area | 150 km² | |
| Highest elevation | 3 m | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
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The Scarborough Reef , Huangyan Dao or Panatag ( English Scarborough Reef or Scarborough Shoal , Chinese 黄岩 岛 , Pinyin Huángyán Dǎo , Filipino / Tagalog Kulumpol ng Panatag ) is a largely sunken atoll that is located in the South China Sea .
geography
The Scarborough Reef is 19 km wide, 13 km long and covers an area of about 150 km², of which about 130 km² is in the central lagoon . It is 250 km off the main Philippine island of Luzon and almost 800 km southeast of the Chinese island of Hainan . The Zhongsha Islands (Macclesfield Bank) are 450 km to the west, and the Spratly Islands are over 400 km to the south-west .
meaning
The in English as a sandbank called (Shoal) reef of the atoll are several small islands, which normally only at high tide can be reached and up to 3 m high rising from the sea. The main island is Nanyan ( Chinese 南岩 , Pinyin Nányán ), South Rock . The rocks together have about two hectares of land.
The area is important as a fishing ground.
In amateur radio, the Scarborough Reef counts as a DXCC entity. As a result, three radio expeditions to this reef have taken place so far (1995, 1997 and 2007).
Expectations
Although they are not actually islands, claims are made by the People's Republic of China , the Philippines and, since 1995, the Republic of China (Taiwan) .
In China, the atoll is assigned to the Zhongsha Islands , a "hypothetical large community" of the prefecture-level city of Sansha , which is subordinate to the Hainan Province .
From the Philippines, the atoll is counted as Kulumpol ng Panatag to the city of Palauig in the province of Zambales (as a special administrative zone next to the city's 19 barangays ).
history
The reef was already marked on a Chinese map in 1427. A variety of ships sank here, including the British cargo and passenger ship Scarborough in 1748 , which gave the reef its western name. In the 19th century, two Australian cargo ships sank, a Taiwanese freighter at the north end of the reef in 1967 and the Taigoon from Manila in 1982 . In the 1960s, the Philippines used the reef for bomb tests.
In April 2012, there was a skirmish between Filipino and Chinese ships, which turned into a crisis between the two states involved.
On May 23, 2012, Renmin Ribao (“People's Newspaper”) reported in Beijing that the island was under full effective control of China and that an unmanned meteorological station had been built there and was regularly maintained.
Other islands in the South China Sea
Web links
- Scarborough Reef on Oceandots ( Memento from December 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- Pictures of the DXpedition 2007
- Scarborough Reef, apple of contention in the South China Sea
- Detailed description
Individual evidence
- ↑ IBRU Boundary and Security Bulletin Summer 1999 , p. 1 (English).
- ↑ Scarborough Reef, apple of contention in the South China Sea ( memento of the original from January 11, 2005 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. .
- ↑ Stephanie Kleine-Ahlbrandt: China's expansion into the sea. In: Le Monde Diplomatique. November 2012 ( online , last accessed December 18, 2012).
- ↑ Article of May 23, 2012 in Renmin Ribao , last consulted on November 11, 2012.
