曾母Next, talk about why it is called this name? !
South China Sea Islands China did not have detailed maps and published official names until 1933.
Vietnam was a French colony at that time. When the French side was conducting geographic surveys of Vietnam, military ships frequently entered and exited the South China Sea, and occupied 9 islands close to Vietnam at that time and declared part of their colony. Under the circumstances, the Chinese government of the Republic of China urgently established a water and land map review committee. In 1935, the "Map of the Islands in the South China Sea" was published, in which Zengmu Ansha was marked for the first time, which was China's first pledge of sovereignty over Zengmu Ansha.
At that time, the time was rush, and the ROC government was unable to send a ship to the site for the survey. The data used in the Nansha waters is from the British side, and the British side’s chart management is called "James". Shoal (James Shoal)" is said to commemorate the British explorer Sir James Brooke. In 1841, he assisted the Sultan of Brunei in suppressing the rebellion and was named Governor of Sarawak, and then declared independence and founded the Brooke Kingdom. Because Zengmu Shoal was close to Sarawak region, so the British named it. And Zengmu is the transliteration of James, so the Chinese official name was Zengmutan.
Sir James Brook
1947 In 1999, the name "Zengmutan" was renamed "Zengmu Ansha" in the "Geography of the South China Sea Islands" published by the Ministry of Internal Affairs based on the latest data.Because I finally figured out that this is a shoal on the bottom of the sea, not a shallow shoal above the water.
In 1983, China sent two fleets to set off from and Zhanjiang , passing through the Paracel Islands, Nansha Islands, Zengmu Shoal and other places. The Chinese warship was in Zengmu Shoal for the first time. The anchor was dropped and the sovereignty stele was thrown to declare China's sovereignty over Zengmu Ansha. This is also the first time that the Chinese military has taken actual actions to declare sovereignty to the world in Zengmu Ansha.
In 1984, the South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences conducted a special investigation on Zengmu Shoal, and finally got a detailed understanding of Zengmu Shoal. It is confirmed that the Zengmu shoal covers an area of 2.12 square kilometers, shaped like a spindle, and the shallowest water depth is more than 17 meters (the average water depth of the Bohai Sea in China is 18 meters).
At that time, scientists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences also discovered that there were two separate shoals to the south of the Zengmu Shoal-the Eight Immortals Shoal and the Site Shoal. It has been reported to the State Council whether it announced that site shoal is the southernmost part of Chinese territory. However, the State Council instructed that in order to avoid unnecessary disputes, Zengmu Ansha was still used as the southernmost point of China, but Zengmu Ansha was later referred to as Qunsha in official documents.
It is worth noting that according to United Nations Law of the Sea , reef and shoal cannot be counted as territory. At present, the closest Chinese manned island to Zengmu Shoal is Huayang Reef . The straight-line distance from Zengmu Shoal is 550 kilometers, but it is only 58 kilometers away from the Yaxi Shoal in the territorial waters of Malaysia.
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