Hengchun

alternative also Heng-ch'un

1. An urban township in Pingtung County, Taiwan.

   In Penghu County, an archipelago west of Taiwan, the wind gusted to 134 mph. Hengchun township reported gusts to 113 mph.

   2016 September 14, Angela Fritz, “Typhoon Meranti blasted Taiwan, and now it’s headed to China”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Sep 2016, Capital Weather Gang

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   Even the influence and authority that had once existed, had now been practically lost. We are told of a village, Siehmali (Sha-mari), about five miles east of Hengchun, inhabited by savages who during the reign of Kienlung (1736-1796) shaved their heads, and became loyal subjects of the emperor.

   1903, James W. Davidson, “The Formosan Camphor Industry”, in The Island of Formosa Past and Present, page 209

   WHALING IN 1957 UNSUCCESSFUL: The 185-ton Japanese catcher that operated from Hengchun (southern tip of Taiwan) from March to April 1957 caught only 4 whales. A 375-ton catcher arrived at Hengchun in late December 1957 under the same Sino-Japanese cooperation arrangement. With this earlier start, the boat is expected to have a more successful season in 1958.

   1958 April, “Taiwan (Formosa)”, in Commercial Fisheries Review, volume 20, number 4, Washington, D.C.: Fish and Wildlife Service, page 74

   Chialoshui is situated on the Pacific Ocean coast of the Hengchun Peninsula 14 kilometers (8.7 miles) east of the town of Hengchun.

   1982 September 12, “First national park: 'Hawaii of the Far East'”, in Free China Weekly, volume XXIII, number 36, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3

   Set in the coastal town of Hengchun, "Cape No. 7" is a parallel narrative of two Japanese-Taiwanese love stories, one of a Japanese man who left his Taiwanese sweetheart to return to Japan after World War II, and the other the relationship between the moody Taiwanese male lead-singer of a hometown rock band and its hot-blooded Japanese band manager.

   2008 November 7, Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop, “The director Wei Te-sheng's long road to fame”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Jun 2022, Arts

   Weather bureau data showed Pingtung as a whole had received 724 millimetres of rain since Wednesday, while the township of Hengchun saw rainfall of more than 600 millimetres on Friday alone.

   2012 August 26, “Drenched once, Taiwan braces for return of tropical cyclone Tembin”, in South China Morning Post, sourced from AFP, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 May 2024, China