Captain Richard Spratly (1802–1870) was a British sea captain and contributor to navigational records, after whom the Spratly Islands in the South China...
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Spratly Islands The Spratly Islands (Filipino: Kapuluan ng Kalayaan; Mandarin Chinese: 南沙群島/南沙群岛; pinyin: Nánshā Qúndǎo; Malay: Kepulauan Spratly; Vietnamese:...
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Spratly Island, (Vietnamese: Đảo Trường Sa or Đảo Trường Sa Lớn, lit. 'the Big Spratly (Trường Sa) Island'; simplified Chinese: 南威岛; traditional Chinese:...
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as the Spratly Islands Richard Spratly, master of the British whaler, the Cyrus South Seaman, notable for naming Spratly Island William Spratly, the Second...
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The Spratly Islands dispute is an ongoing territorial dispute among Brunei, China, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan, and Vietnam concerning "ownership"...
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William Spratly was the Second Officer of the British whaler, Cyrus and brother of its captain, Richard Spratly, who is notable for naming Spratly Island...
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Johnson South Reef skirmish (redirect from 1988 Spratly Islands naval battle)
Johnson South Reef in the Union Banks region of the Spratly Islands, in the South China Sea. The Spratly Islands are a group of over 100 small islands, reefs...
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June 1848 her captain was Richard Spratly, namesake of Spratly Island and the group of islands and reefs known as the Spratly Islands. She apparently made...
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Father of Jamie Redknapp, the former Liverpool captain Richard Spratly, discoverer of the Spratly Islands in 1843 H. M. Tomlinson, travel-writer, journalist...
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and Wanli Changsha for Spratly. During the Qing dynasty, a set of maps refer to Paracel as Qizhouyang (Shitang became Spratly, and Changsha became Zhongsha)...
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Ladd Reef (category Reefs of the Spratly Islands)
Vietnam-controlled reef in the Spratly group of islands, South China Sea. China (PRC) and Taiwan (ROC) are also claimants of the reef. Like Spratly Island, Ladd Reef...
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Freedomland, a micronation declared by Filipino explorer Tomás Cloma in the Spratly Islands This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title...
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a misunderstanding. Convict voyage #3 (1832): Under the command of Richard Spratly and surgeon James McTernan York departed Plymouth on 1 September 1832...
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Fiery Cross Reef (category Atolls of the Spratly Islands)
airfield in the Spratly Islands. As of January 2016, the PRC has reclaimed land on seven reefs and built three runways within the Spratly Islands. The runway...
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People Liberation Army Navy. The YJ-12B was reportedly deployed to the Spratly Islands around April 2018. They may cover the southern half of the South...
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"Natural land area in the Spratly Islands does not exceed 2 km2" Carmen, Ma.; Ablan-Lagman, A. (2019). Chapter 26 - The Spratly Islands. pp. 583–591. doi:10...
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Swift's 1710 poem "Description of a City Shower": Drowned puppies, stinking sprats, all drenched in mud, Dead cats and turnip-tops come tumbling down the flood...
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million strike-miles of the USN. The Spratly Islands dispute is a territorial dispute over the ownership of the Spratly Islands, a group of islands located...
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Spratly Islands – Nansha Islands – "The South-sands" are subject to claims by Vietnam, the PRC, ROC, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Brunei. Spratly Island...
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Vietnam War East Sea Campaign At sea 9–29 April North Vietnam captures the Spratly Islands in one of the last South Vietnamese-controlled places Cambodian...
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first to document the island now known as Spratly Island, naming it Storm Island. However, Richard Spratly's sighting eventually become better known and...
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combat air patrols over disputed areas in the South China Sea including the Spratly Islands, Scarborough Shoal, and nearby areas, "to enhance combat capabilities...
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prepare it, the small fish (often Japanese jack mackerel or wakasagi smelt) (Sprat) or diced fish (salmon, trout, sea bass, ocean perch, cod, haddock, Pollack...
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Sea Spurge Remote Area Teams (redirect from SPRATS)
Sea Spurge Remote Area Teams (SPRATS) is an environment care group founded in 2007, using a volunteer adventure conservation model. The initial primary...
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Diaoyu Island, Penghu Islands, Dongsha Islands, Xisha Islands, Nansha (Spratly) Islands and other islands that belong to the People's Republic of China...
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since 1956. Sansha City, which administers PRC-controlled territories in Spratly and Paracel Islands, has its administrative seat located on the island...
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South China Sea, including the Vietnamese-claimed Paracel Islands and Spratly Islands. John Wick: Chapter 4 was released digitally on May 23, 2023. The...
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Province. The ROC also controls the Pratas Islands and Taiping Island in the Spratly Islands, which are part of the disputed South China Sea Islands. They were...
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covered, but other areas of the world whose status is disputed, such as the Spratly Islands, have entries. Subnational areas of countries (such as U.S. states...
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(protectorate) (Northern Vietnam) (1884–1949) State of Vietnam (1949–1954) Spratly Islands (1933–1939) Paracel Islands (1933–1939) Some territories in the...
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