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Mischief Reef, also known as Vành Khăn Reef (Vietnamese: Đá Vành Khăn), Meiji Reef (Chinese: 美濟礁/美济礁; pinyin: Měijì Jiāo) or Panganiban Reef [1] (Filipino: Bahura ng Panganiban), is a low tide elevation (LTE) reef/atoll surrounding a large lagoon in the southeastern region of Dangerous Ground in the east of the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea.
Menzies Reef, Irving Reef, West York Island; 1.27 Southampton Reefs (East of Tizard Bank) Hopps Reef, Livock Reef; Northern NE – Reed Bank. Nares Bank, Marie Louise Bank; 1.27 & 1.28 Central NE Jackson Atoll, Nanshan Island, Flat Island, Third Thomas Shoal, Hopkins Reef, Amy Douglas, Hirane Shoal, Hardy Reef; 1.29 Eastern NE
Gabriela Silang Reef (Erica Reef) Gaven Reefs / Gaven North Reef / Gaven South Reef; H. Half Moon Shoal; Hardy Reef (Hubo Reef) Hubo Reef (Hardy Reef) Hughes Reef (Dongmen Reef) I. Investigator Shoal (Pawikan Reef) Irving Reef (Balagtas Reef) Itu Aba (Ligao Island, Taiping Island) J. James Shoal; Johnson Reef: Johnson North Reef (Collins ...
In 1990, 1994, and 1997, the People's Republic of China released An Atlas of Ancient Maps of China in three volumes. According to Philippine judge Antonio Carpio, no ancient map showed Chinese sovereignty over any territory south of Hainan. [64] [30] [31] [32] In 1994, the PRC occupied Mischief Reef, located some 250 miles from the Philippine ...
A Vietnamese map from 1834 also combines the Spratly and Paracel Islands into one region known as "Vạn Lý Trường Sa", a feature commonly incorporated into maps of the era (萬里長沙) ‒ that is, the same as the aforementioned Chinese island name Wanli Changsha. [56]
Landsat 7-derived sketch map of North and South Luconia Shoals Extract from US Dept of State map also showing Louisa Reef and James Shoal. The Luconia Shoals, divided into the North and South Luconia Shoals, and sometimes known as the Luconia Reefs, are one of the largest and least-known reef complexes in the South China Sea. [1]
Subsequent to the Chinese occupation of Mischief Reef in the mid-1990s, a Philippine World War II-vintage naval landing craft, (LST 57 - Sierra Madre), was deliberately run aground on the Second Thomas Shoal in 1999 to maintain a Philippine naval outpost in the area; more than 15 years later it continues to be manned by about a dozen Philippine Marines.
The Spratly Islands dispute is an ongoing territorial dispute among Brunei, China, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan, and Vietnam concerning "ownership" of the Spratly Islands, a group of islands and associated "maritime features" (reefs, banks, and cays etc.) located in the South China Sea.