Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Pingtan.
Chief town is Pingtan or P'ing-t'an (pop. 5,382), fishing port on W coast. The isl. shelters (W) Haitan Bay (or Futsing Bay), which provides a deep anchorage.
1952, “Haitan Island or Hai-t'an Island”, in Leon E. Seltzer, editor, The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 746, column 12 more examples
On 18 October, a US warship invaded China's territorial waters in the P'ing-t'an area of Fukien Province. China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has issued stern warning No. 74.
1960 February 26, Communist China Digest, number 10, United States Joint Publications Research Service, published 1998, →OCLC, page 4Typhoon Billie exited Taiwan and moved toward the People's Republic of China on a west-northwestward track. By morning on the 10th, Billie had weakened to a tropical storm and slowed to 11 kn. At 0000 on the 10th, P'ing-t'an reported 60-kn winds from the north-northeast and sea-level pressure of 981.2 mb. About 0300 Billie went ashore 25 miles southeast of P'ing-t'an. Within hours the storm dissipated over the rugged terrain of eastern China.
1977, Climatological Data National Summary, volume 27, number 13, NOAA, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 96–97
Origin
- Mandarin平潭
- EnglishP'ing-t'an
From Mandarin 平潭 (Píngtán), Wade–Giles romanization: Pʻing²-tʻan².
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