Abagaitu Islet

Abagaitu Zhouzhu (Chinese阿巴 该 图 洲渚/阿巴 该 图 洲渚, Pinyin Ābāgāitú Zhōuzhǔ; Russian Большой остров, ie Bolshoi Ostrow, " Big Island "), is an island of the river Ergun ( Argun ) in the administrative territory of the State Qagan Weide Shuangwa in the north of the new Left Bargu - banner that belongs to the city of Hulun Buir in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China. A smaller portion of the island is Russian territory and belongs to Rajon Zabaikalsky the Trans-Baikal region. The island is located in the northwest Qagan Shuangwas, just west of Galud, shortly after the over the urban area of ​​Manjur ( Jalainur mine district) coming from the Hulun Lake Dalang Olom Gol ( протока Russian Мутная, Mutnaja Protoka, " Turbid river branch " ) with the Hailar He has united to Ergun, and divides this into a western and an eastern arm. This flow around the island northward. Abagaitu Zhouzhu is uninhabited and has an area of ​​57.56 km ², which is at high water but significantly reduced at normal water level. The swampy island is crossed by numerous water poor and is heavily overgrown with tall reeds and willows. From its rich bird life especially the numerous wild swans, egrets, herons and swan geese are mentioned.

Origin of the name

The Mongolian name of the island means " where there are women ," or " where the women have come here ." In Yongzheng 5 ( 1727) Sino- Russian joint border patrol encamped near the confluence of Hailar He and Dalang Olom Gol and was about to leave to get drinking water when a Mongolian woman with two buckets of water came from the direction of the island and they offered them. Response, the Chinese officials awarded (at that time not to China belonging ) island its current name.

Border issue

Abagaitu Zhouzhu was traditional and undisputed Chinese territory, until the Soviet Union occupied it in 1929 taking advantage of the internal political turmoil in China. In the " Supplementary Agreement on the Eastern part of the Chinese- Russian border between the People's Republic of China and the Russian Federation " of 14 October 2004, Russia pledged to return the larger, the northeastern part of the island to China. China agreed in return not to raise the demand for the return of the southwestern part of the island and recognize the resulting boundary as binding under international law. The comprehensive survey and demarcation of a mixed Sino- Russian Commission were completed in early October 2008 and 34.55 km ² of the island to China passed. Russia retained 23.01 km ². This Abagaitu was Zhouzhu one of only two places where the Sino- Russian border runs over an island.