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[F] Travel to China / Famous Chinese Seas and Islands /
Zhoushan Island

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Zhoushan Island is the principal island of the namesake archipelago governed by
Zhoushan City, Zhejiang Province, the People's Republic of China. Its name means "Mountain of Boat", because its shape. It is the province's largest island, and China's fourth largest one (after Taiwan, Hainan, and Chongming Islands). The island is the district seats of both Dinghai and Putuo.
Geography

In 30? N. 122? E., it lies northwest and southeast, and has a circumference of 170.16 km (51 miles), the extreme length being 44 km (20 mi), the extreme breadth 18 km (10 mi), and the minimum breadth 6 mi. Its area is 502.65 km? (including tidal zone) with a coastline. It is 44 km east-east and 18 km north-south. Its closest point to Mainland is 9.1 kilometres. The tallest point is 503.6 metres.

The island is beautifully diversified with hill and dale, and well watered with numerous small streams, of which the most considerable is the Tungkiang, faffing into the harbour of Dinghai. There are several hundreds of ports around the islands, separated into three areas: Dinghai Port Zone, Chengjiamen Port Zone (沉家门港区), and Laotangshan Port Zone (老塘山港区). The tourism regions include the regions of Chengjiamen and Dinghai.
Subdivisions

440000 people, mostly Han Chinese|Han, in 150000 households live in the following 17 subdivisions of Dinghai and Putuo Districts are on Zhoushan Island:|9 sub-districts:
  • Jiefang, district seat of Dinghai
  • Changguo (昌国), municipal seat of Zhoushan
  • Huannan (环南)
  • Chengdong (城东)
  • Yancang (盐仓)
  • Lincheng (临城)
  • Chengjiamen (沉家门), district seat of Putuo
  • Goushan (勾山)
  • Donggang (东港)
|7 towns:
  • Baiquan (白泉)
  • Shuangqiao (双桥)
  • Maao (马岙)
  • Cengang (岑港)
  • Ganshilan (干石览)
  • Xiaosha (小沙)
  • Lanmao (展茅)
1 townships:
  • Beichan (北蝉)
Tourism

The peak of Qinglong Mountain has a memorial tablet dedicated to revolutionary matyrs. Dinghai has a number of sites related to the Opium War:
  • Opium War Memorial Park (鸦片战争纪念公园)

  • Temples of the Three Loyalists (三忠祠)

  • The Tablet of the Martyring Site of Lord Yao (姚公殉难处碑)

  • The Tablet of the Martyring Site of Mr. Li (义士李先生殉难处碑)

  • Zhengyuan Cannon Platform (震远城炮台)

  • Daotou City (道头土城)


There also those about the Ming Dynasty|Ming-Qing Dynasty|Qing contention:
  • Tonggui City (同归域)

  • The Well of Imperial Consort Yuan of King Lu (鲁王元妃宫井)


Other sites include:
  • Zuyin Temple (祖印寺), from 940年

  • San Mao Memorial Museum (三毛祖居纪念馆)
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This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Zhoushan Island".


Last Modified:   2005-04-13


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