Fiery Cross Reef

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Yongshu Jiao (Chinese永 暑 礁, Pinyin Yǒngshǔ Jiao Fiery Cross Reef or; Filipino: Kagitingan; Vietnamese: Đà Chu Thap ), is an atoll of the Nansha Islands in the South China Sea. The largely submerged atoll reefs which form a round shape, has an area of ​​over 4 square kilometers, the maximum extent of reef formations from northeast to southwest, a length of 26 km and a width of 7.5 km. The numerous reefs and sandbanks at high tide are largely below the water level. The lagoon is only faintly discernible and has a depth of 14.6 m to 40 m. At high tide, on the southwestern edge of the atoll extends a reef (9 ° 33 'N, 112 ° 53' O9.55112.88333333333 ) about 1 m above the water surface in the northeast, another approximately 0.6 m. Yongshu Jiao is good 1370 km from the mainland and 1037 km from the port Yulin away gear at Sanya on Hainan Island. On an imaginary line from Taiping Dao Dao to Nanwei (南威 岛, Spratly Iceland ), the island is approximately in the middle.

Yongshu Jiao is administered by the People's Republic of China as a part of the town Sansha its Hainan Province, the Philippines, Vietnam and the Republic of China raise in the context of territorial disputes in the South China Sea claim to the island.

History

The Government of the Republic of China had the island in 1935 for the first time officially with a Chinese place names, Shizi Huojiao (十字 火 礁) occupied, which was amended by another decree of the government in 1947 to its present name. In March 1987, the Oceanographic Committee of UNESCO decided that China should build the Oceanographic Observation Station No. 74 on his behalf. The following year, the Chinese government Yongshu Jiao chose for this purpose and established national emblem as well as on five reefs ten beacon (航标 灯), towers, each with a height of 7 m and a diameter of 1.8 m. In 1988, the southwestern rock on which there are guano deposits, expanded to nearly 9000 square meters and built a naval base with monitoring military port and a permanent garrison of 200 Marines of the Chinese People 's Liberation Army. There were also plantations of coconut trees, banyan trees and conifers. Since 2011, the island is the seat of the High Command of the Chinese naval forces in the area of the Nansha Islands, equipped with facilities for data transmission via satellite, radar, artillery and multiple MG- bases. China Mobile has Yongshu Jiao and the surrounding sea area it connected to the Chinese mobile phone network. On the island of oceanographic observation station of UNESCO is in permanent operation. In addition, there is a two-story residential buildings and a 500 -square-foot greenhouse for growing vegetables.

Administrative Divisions

The " hypothetical large village " Yongshu Jiao (永 暑 礁 虚拟 镇) is divided into:

• The hypothetical population Yongshujiao Community (永 暑 礁 虚拟 社区); and the
• Meiji village (美 济 村), on Meiji Jiao.

Great community and residents are provisional Community " hypothetical " because there are no civilians on Yongshu Jiao and military personnel of the civil administration is not subject. Since the Meiji village but already has a civilian population, should the " hypothetical " state in the near future be terminated.

Swell

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• Yongshu Jiao in Chinese online encyclopedia Baidu, accessed on August 14, 2013