Cape Santiago (Taiwan)

For other uses, see San Diego (disambiguation).
Cape Santiago

Cape Santiago[1] (Chinese: 三貂角; pinyin: Sāndiāojiǎo; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Sam-tiau-kak) is a cape located in Gongliao District, New Taipei City, Taiwan. The cape is the easternmost point of the main Taiwan island, and also the easternmost cape of Taiwan. On 5 May 1626, a Spanish fleet reached the northeast tip of Taiwan and named the native village of Caquiunauan (present-day Fulong Village) as Santiago. Later this name was extended to the nearby cape.[2]

There is a lighthouse situated on Cape Santiago, called Cape Santiago Lighthouse.

A nearby beach, Yenliao (鹽寮), was the site of the first landing for the Japanese invasion of Taiwan in 1895.

(Note: The Spanish origin name is often written incorrectly in current government published English language tourism literature as San Diego (such as [3]) since both San Diego and Santiago is transcribed into Chinese as 聖地牙哥[4] )

the square of Cape Santiago Lighthouse

See also

References

  1. ↑ "How Taiwan Became Chinese - Chapter 4 La Isla Hermosa, por Tonio Andrade" http://www.gutenberg-e.org/andrade/andrade04.html
  2. ↑ "Welcome to Taiwan Sandiaojiao (San Diego)". Eng.taiwan.net.tw. Retrieved 2014-05-25.
  3. ↑ http://tour.ntpc.gov.tw/page.aspx?wtp=3&wnd=336&id=C1_382000000A_011493
  4. ↑ https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%81%96%E5%9C%B0%E7%89%99%E5%93%A5

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Coordinates: 25°00′27″N 122°00′06″E / 25.007431°N 122.001736°E / 25.007431; 122.001736


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