Paracel Islands

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• enPR: pä-rä-sělʹ

Paracel Islands pl

1. A group of South China Sea islands administered under Sansha, Hainan, China, as Xisha (claimed by Taiwan (ROC) and Vietnam).
   • 1897, Carlton Dawe, Captain Castle: A Tale of the China Seas‎ (Fiction), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., →OCLC, →OL, page 31:

     ABOUT the third day out we passed the dreaded Macclesfield Bank, which, with the adjacent Paracel Islands and reefs, forms a pretty trap for the careless or unskilful navigator.

   • 1976 June 6, “ROC reiterates ownership of southern islets”, in Free China Weekly‎, volume XVII, number 22, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1:

     The Republic of China has reiterated its sovereignty over the Nansha and Hsisha Islands (Spratly and Paracel Islands).

   • 2022 June 29, Beijing newsroom, Hong Kong newsroom, Liz Lee, “Typhoon may be forming ahead of Hong Kong handover anniversary”, in Robert Birsel, editor, Reuters‎, archived from the original on 29 June 2022, China‎:

     Gales in the South China Sea, off Guangdong's east coast and near the Paracel Islands, were forecast to reach moderate magnitudes of 6-7 but the wind in some parts of the sea could be stronger, the forecasters said.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Paracel Islands.

• The Paracels, Paracel
• (from Mandarin Chinese) Xisha, Hsisha
• (from Vietnamese) Hoang Sa

• Paracel Islands at Google Ngram Viewer
• “Paracel Islands, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “Paracel Islands”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “Pa·ra·cel Islands”, in The International Geographic Encyclopedia and Atlas‎, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1979, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 592, column 1
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Paracel Islands”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2361, column 2: “Known to the Vietnamese as Hoang Sa. […] Also called Xisha Islands.”