28 April 2019

niaoqijiao lighthouse; postcard, unused: china (v2)

what. unused postcard with lighthouse

where. Gulangyu, Xiamen, Fujian, China

remarks. The name of the lighthouse identified is based on 1 description in a website (1); hence, the information needs to be corroborated to ensure that the correct lighthouse is being named.

note. Mandarin Chinese for lighthouse: 灯塔 (simplified script; dēngtǎ), 燈塔 (traditional script; dēngtǎ)


Sources

(1) Rowlett, Russ and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. "Lighthouses of Indonesia: Xiàmén, Fújiàn". The Lighthouse Directory, 23 September 2017. <https://www.ibiblio.org/lighthouse/chn8a.htm>.

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