Peikan

The one landing strip in the Matsus, and good for light aircraft only, was on the second largest island, Peikan. Between Nankan and Peikan lay the Matsu Straits, a twisted riptide-torn channel, boasting freak winds and bouldered shores. It was on this seaway that amphibian aircraft landed, wind and sea permitting.

1962, DeWitt S. Copp, “The Mudcats”, in The Odd Day, William Morrow and Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 66

A preliminary PLA attempt in late September to land forces on Peikan T'ang island (one of the Matsu group) was beaten back by the island's defenders and counterattacked by ROC bombers, which claimed to have sunk five motorised junks and damaged six others, out of a total fleet of forty to fifty.

[1975, J. H. Kalicki, “First Taiwan Strait crisis, 1954-1955”, in The Pattern of Sino-American Crises: Political-Military Interactions in the 1950s, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 134–135

Based on the variation diagrams (Figs. 1 and 10) and the occurrence of gabbroic rocks in Peikan, the author suggests that Matsu granite might have derived by differentiation from normal calc-alkali parent magma.

Proceedings of the Geological Society of China

1986, 中國地質學會會刊 [Proceedings of the Geological Society of China], numbers 29-30, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 60

Mainland fishing boats that had disapperared^([sic – meaning disappeared]) for many days massed again on waters near Peikan, Matsu. Peikan residents pointed out that because mainland fishing boats had come too close, ROC [Republic of China] troops opened fire to disperse them; but the Peikan Headquarters said they knew nothing about the matter and believed fishermen were possibly using explosives to catch fish.

1996 March 27 [1996 March 25], “Taiwan: Mainland Fishing Boats 'Massing' Near Matsu”, in Daily Report: China, number 096-060, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Taipei China Broadcasting Corporation News Network, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 89–90

As Reece Overhalt spoke to the President, the first reports came in of China’s invasion of the Taiwanese island of Peikan, just off the coast of Fujian.

1997, Humphrey Hawksley, Simon Hoberton, chapter 7, in Dragon Strike: The Millennium War (Fiction), Sidgwick & Jackson, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 338