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Mudou Island

Coordinates: 23°47′10″N 119°36′00″E / 23.786°N 119.600°E / 23.786; 119.600
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Mudou Island
Mudou Island is located in Taiwan
Mudou Island
Mudou Island
Geography
LocationBaisha, Penghu, Taiwan
Coordinates23°47′10″N 119°36′00″E / 23.786°N 119.600°E / 23.786; 119.600
Administration

Mudou Island (Chinese: 目斗嶼; pinyin: Mùdǒu Yǔ) is an island in Baisha Township, Penghu County, Taiwan.[1][2] It is in the Taiwan Strait off the west coast of Taiwan. The island was formed from plateau basalt.

Name

Map including Mudou Island (labeled as Mokuto-shō (Kita-shō)) (1944)
Map including Mudou Island (unlabeled island with 'Light' marking the lighthouse) (1950)

The island was named Mudouyu because the shape resembles an eye of a man or an ink marker of a carpenter.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Mudou Yu: Taiwan". Geographical names. 2012. Retrieved 31 March 2016.
  2. ^ "GeoNames Search". Geographic Names Database. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, USA. Retrieved 31 March 2016.

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