| LC control no. | sh 85074273 |
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| Geographic heading | Lan Island (Taiwan) |
| Geographic subdivision usage | Taiwan--Lan Island |
| Variant(s) | Botel Tobago Island (Taiwan) Hongtouyu (Taiwan) Hung-tʻon Hsü (Taiwan) Hung-tʻou Hsü (Taiwan) Hungfʻou Hsii (Taiwan) Hungtow Island (Taiwan) Koto Island (Taiwan) Koto Sho (Taiwan) Kotosho Island (Taiwan) Kōtōsyo (Taiwan) Lan Hsü (Taiwan) Lan Yü (Taiwan) Lan Yü Island (Taiwan) Lanhsu (Taiwan) Lanyu (Taiwan) Lanyu Island (Taiwan) Orchid Island (Taiwan) |
| See also | Islands--Taiwan |
| Found in | Columbia gaz. of the world, c1998 (Lan Yü Island, Chin. Hung-tʻou Hsü [Chin.=orchid island], off SE Taiwan, 45 mi/72 km E of Cape Oluanpi; 8 mi/12.9 km long, 1.5 mi/2.4 km-4 mi/6.4 km wide; 22⁰03ʹN 121⁰33ʹE. Formerly called Botel Tobago) GEOnet, Dec. 10, 2003 (Lan Yü, ISL, 22⁰03ʹ00ʺN 121⁰32ʹ00ʺE, TW04, variants: Koto Sho, Orchid Island, Lan Hsü, Kotosho Island, Koto Island, Hung-t'ou Hsü, Hung-t'on Hsu) Sasaki, S. Kōtōsyo rettō no shokubutsu chirigakuteki kyū kukeigakuteki no kenkyū, 1937- : pt. 1, t.p. (Kōtōsyo (Botel Tobago Isl. proper)) Shen, Huei-Ping. Earthworm fauna of the Lanyu Island (Botel Tobago), 2002, via WWW (PDF), Dec. 10, 2003 (Lanyu (Botel Tobago) is an oceanic island created by volcanic activities during the Tertiary. Situated in the Bashi Channel between Taiwan and Philippines, it lies southeast of Taiwan with a nearest distance of about 62 km and about 110 km north of the Batan Islands of the Philippines. Its area is about 45.7 km²) Yen, Shen-Horn. A new subspecies of hawkmoth from Lanyu, Taiwan, with a revised and annotated checklist of the Taiwanese Sphingidae (Lepidoptera), 2003, via WWW (PDF), Dec. 10, 2003: p. 299 (Lanyu (also known as Lanhsu, Orchid I., Hongtouyu, Kotosho, and Botel Tobago)) GeoNames [algorithmically matched] island; 22°03ʹ04ʺN 121°32ʹ27ʺE |
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