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Taiping Island, also known as Itu Aba Island and by various other names, is the largest of the naturally occurring〔Note that in 2014 the PRC embarked on a number of reclamation projects in the Spratly Islands. It appears that the largest of these, at Fiery Cross Reef is of at least 60 hectares, and according to some unverifiable sources, possibly as large as 150 ha. 〕 Spratly Islands in the South China Sea.〔C.Michael Hogan (2011) (''South China Sea'' Topic ed. P.Saundry. Ed.-in-chief C.J.Cleveland. Encyclopedia of Earth. National Council for Science and the Environment. Washington DC )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://globalnation.inquirer.net/109656/in-the-know-itu-aba )〕 The island is elliptical in shape being in length and in width, with an area of . It is part of the Tizard Bank (Zheng He Reefs; 鄭和群礁). The Taiping Island Airport is the most prominent artificial feature on the island. The island is administered by the Republic of China (Taiwan), as part of Cijin, Kaohsiung. It is also claimed by the People's Republic of China, the Philippines and Vietnam. The nearby Zhongzhou Reef is also under the control of the ROC. ==Names== Taiping Island () was named in honor of a Nationalist Chinese Navy warship which sailed to the island in 1946,〔 when Japan surrendered the South China Sea Islands to China after the Second World War.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Itu Aba Island (Island ), Spratly Islands )〕 The name Taiping Island is used by both Taipei〔Soong, Grace, "(Taiping Island camp shows sovereignty: Ma )", ''The China Post'', July 19, 2011.〕 and Beijing.〔Zhu Xianlong, "(Commentary: Taiwan Independence No Easy Thing )", ''People's Daily Online'', August 14, 2002.〕 The island was also called ''Huángshānmǎ Jiāo'' () and ''Huángshānmǎ Zhì'' () by Chinese fishermen. Another commonly used international name for the island is Itu Aba. At least three different etymological origins have been proposed for this name: that it is a Malay expression meaning "What's that?" (spelled ''itu apa'' in the current orthography); a corruption of Hainanese ''Widuabe'' (''Huángshānmǎ'' ()), or that it was named after two Vietnamese maids (Tu and Ba) of a French Indochina official charged with mapping the Spratly Islands. Some nonpartisan sources including U.S. government publications continue to use "Itu Aba" as the primary designator of the land feature, often with "Taiping" in parentheses. The Vietnamese name for the island is Ba Binh (; (ベトナム語:Đảo Ba Bình); literally "calm wave" or "calm sea")〔"(VN demands a stop to violation of sovereignty )", ''Vietnam+'', May 10, 2012.〕〔"(Historical documents on Vietnam’s sovereignty over Paracel and Spratly islands )", ''VietNamNet'', June 24, 2011.〕 and the Philippine name is Ligao (or Ligaw), meaning "lost" or "wild" island. During the Japanese occupation of the island 1939-45, the name was used.〔D. J. Hancox, John Robert Victor Prescott, (1997). Secret hydrographic surveys in the Spratly Islands. Maritime Institute of Malaysia, p.91. ISBN 9839275100〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Taiping Island」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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