tatan

Example Sentences

• "Tátán.-Tátán 大担 is eight cables long, with a low sandy isthmus in the centre. The east end is the highest, (about 300 feet,) with a small circular watch-house and three chimneys on it. On the west side of the isthmus is a village. Between this island and the south end of Amoy, only one and a half fathoms were found ; soundings, however, were not obtained close in to the Amoy shore."
• "In the offensive against Tatan Island launched by the Communists in July 1950, Communist enlisted men Pan Chang-lin, Wang Yung-hsin, Hsu Fu-liang and 11 others shot their commanding officer and came over to the defenders of the island."
• "Little Quemoy is a mountain of tunneled rock between the larger island and the mainland. Chief among the outer defenses of these two are the tiny Tan Islands—Tatan, Erhtan and a still-smaller islet. Control of the Tans, which may be the Chinese Reds first objective, would give them a means of tightening the blockade of the Quemoys still further."
• "Tatan and Erhtan, two rocky outposts of Kinmen, are some nine miles southwest of Kinmen and within yelling distance of the Communist-held mainland.[…] The story is at once thrilling and heart warming. Organized into teams of three men each, the unsung heroes would launch their supply-ladden small motorboat in the darkness of night and sail stealthily to the brink of the death trap, the surrounding waters of Tatan and Erhtan."
• "Ann Fong Lang and Shui Kong-lin, only women on Tatan Island, standing in the communications trench leading to their underground broadcasting studio."
• "Sixty other former ASNA raiders, captured by the Communists while conducting commando activities on the mainland in the early 1960s, were released on the same day from Amoy to Tatan, an offshore island just off the mainland."