Mudou Island
Mudou Island is located in Taiwan
Mudou Island
Mudou Island
Geography
LocationBaisha, Penghu, Taiwan
Coordinates23°47′10″N 119°36′00″E / 23.786°N 119.600°E / 23.786; 119.600
Administration

Mudou Island (Chinese: 目斗嶼; pinyin: Mùdǒu Yǔ) is an island in Baisha Township, Penghu County, Taiwan.[1][2] It is in the Taiwan Strait off the west coast of Taiwan. The island was formed from plateau basalt.

Name

Map including Mudou Island (labeled as Mokuto-shō (Kita-shō)) (1944)
Map including Mudou Island (unlabeled island with 'Light' marking the lighthouse) (1950)

The island was named Ba̍k-táu-sū (墨斗嶼) at first because the shape resembles an ink marker of a carpenter. Japanese colonizer transferred the name from 墨斗 to 目斗, which are pronounced the same in Taiwanese.[3]

See also

  • Islands of Taiwan

References

  1. "Mudou Yu: Taiwan". Geographical names. 2012. Retrieved 31 March 2016.
  2. "GeoNames Search". Geographic Names Database. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, USA. Retrieved 31 March 2016.
  3. 陳英俊; 高啟進; 林文鎮; 郭金龍 (December 2010). 紀麗美 (ed.). 2010澎湖縣文化資產手冊. 澎湖縣馬公市: 澎湖縣政府文化局. pp. 第144頁. ISBN 978-986-02-6279-7. Archived from the original on 2021-06-24. Retrieved 2021-06-22.


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