1894.China sea directory vol.3

1894.China sea directry vol3,Author: Great Britain. Hydrographic Dept
Subject: Pilot guides
Publisher: London : Printed for the Hydrographic Office, Admiralty
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SOUTH COAST OF KOREA
KOREA STRAIT devides the south-east coast of Korea from the south-west coast of the Japan islands; it is divided into two channels by Tsu sima.
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chapter 3: SEA OF JAPAN;-EAST COAST OF KOREA, AND RUSSIAN TARTARY =GULF OF TAETARY ANS RIVER AMUR-TARTARY STRAIT-SEA OF OKHOTSK, AND KAMCHATKA
LIANCOURT ROCKS are named after the French ship Liancourt, which discovered them in 1849; they were also called Menalai and Olivutsa rocks by the Russian frigate Pallas in 1854, and Hornet island by H.M.S Hornet in 1855. Captain Forsyth, of the latter vessel, gives their position as lat.37"14N., long, 131.55'E., and describes them as being two barren rocky islets, covered with guano, which makes them appear white; they are about a mile in extent N.W, by W. and S.E by E., a quarter of a mile apart, and appearetly joined together by a reef. The western islet, elevated about 410 feet above the sea, has a sugar-loaf form; the easternmost is much lower and flat-topped. The water appeared deep close-to, but they are dangerous from their position, being directly in the track of vessels steering up the sea of Japan for Hakodate.


Matsusima  (Dagelet Island) (*omit)



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Broughton Bayhttp://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924071164994#page/n151/mode/2up/search/japan
(korea gulf) , is 93 miles wide between cape Duroch on the south and cape Petit Thouars on the north, and 55 miles deep; and Yung-hing bay and port Lezaref at its head offer excellent shelter. The shores of the bay are winding and mostly low, and vessels can anchor off them in moderate depth with safety.
The northa and south shores of Broughton bay are commanded by lofty heights near the sea. The Belavens mountains, about 15 miles southwet ofcape Duroch, are respectively 6092 and 5884 feet above the sea; and to the north at 24 miles in the interior, W.N.W of cape Petit Thouars, mount Hienfung reaches the hight of 8114 feet. The shores, although wooded and verdant, are varied occasionally by waste lands and rocky cliff.
After passing cape Duroch, a moderate sized bay will open out with a low sandy shore, and it probably affords good anchoring ground during southerly winds , as in general all the bays examined on this coast invariably do. A group of small islands and sunken ocks lie in the middle and north-west parts of this bay, on several of which a few cedar trees are growing. From the north extreme of the bay the coast again becomes winding and rocky, and gradually falls toward Feleny point.


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Yellow Seahttp://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924071164986#page/n549/mode/2up/search/japan
The TUNG-Hai , or Eastern Sea of the Chinese, although recognized by geographers, is scarcely known by the name to navigators. It comprises the space lying between the Yellow sea and the Pacific, being separeted from the former by an imaginary line joining the north of the yangtse and the Korea, and from the latter by the chain of the islands stretching from Kiusiu (Japan) to Lu-chu and Formosa. Its climate is temparete, thhough subject to gales, and occationally to typhoon,s and snow storms in the Yangtse and coast tides, seem to be irregular, except in its eastern part, through which the Japan stream flows north-eastward from Formosa toward he Pacific along the southern shores of Japan, and northward with some regularity, especially in the summer season, through Korea strait.

Broughton bay
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