Double Island

At the entrance of the bay on which Swatow is located, there is a small island called Double Island, on which foreigners secured a foothold before the port was opened to the outside world.

1891 August, S. B. Partridge, “American Baptist Mission, Swatow, China.”, in The Baptist Missionary Magazine, volume LXXI, number 8, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 370

The Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the most romantic events on the Chinese spiritual calendar - a time to gaze at and worship the beauty of the full moon. I think I captured the reverence and lyricism of the mid-autumn moon in this shot off Mayu Island in Shantou.

中國風光攝影集

[1987, Manly Chin, China The Beautiful [中國風光攝影集], Reader's Digest Association Far East Limited, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 310

Food is rarely disappointing in Shantou and Chaozhou, with street food often as good as that offered in restaurants and available late into the night. On Mayu Island there are numerous small, privately-owned snack shops on the beach which serve good rice noodles and seafood.

[1988, Paddy Booz, Chang Tsong-zung, Katherine Forestier, Simon Holledge, Jill Hunt, “Shantou”, in Guilin, Canton, Guangdong, Lincolnwood, Illinois: Passport Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 157

In the 1890s, for no known reason, he took against his colleagues, the Swatow pilots stationed at Double Island, and would walk for miles along the coast to intercept incoming vessels before they could reach the official pilots.

1998, Frances Wood, “Private Life and the Social Round”, in No Dogs and Not Many Chinese: Treaty Port Life in China, 1843-1943, John Murray, published 2000, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 138

The truth, however, is that the Edsall was not then in the Amoy-Kulangsu area but instead spent all of the first half of May 1939 at Swatow (Shantou), China, well to the south. Anchored near Double Island, Edsall observed Japanese aerial attacks in support of their ground offensive in the region.

2008, Donald M. Kehn Jr., “Flushdeckers”, in A Blue Sea of Blood: Deciphering the Mysterious Fate of the USS Edsall, Zenith Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 43