Oluanpi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 鵝鑾鼻 (Éluánbí) Wade–Giles romanization: O²-luan²-pi².
Senses: examples: text: Oluanpi's lighthouse looks toward Lanyu, or Orchid Island, a tiny, rocky protuberance sixty-eight miles to the southeast and important because it is the home of the Yami, the smallest and most primitive tribe of aborigines in Taiwan.
ref: 1979 November, Irene Corbally Kuhn, “Gourmet Holidays Taiwan”, in Gourmet, volume XXXIX, number 11, page 164:
text: The Pingtung county government has assisted district offices under its jurisdiction to develop the scenic Oluanpi area close to Kenting, including the rock formations at Maopitou and Chialoshui.
ref: 1981 August 30, “Progress without pollution in Pingtung county”, in 自由中國週報 [Free China Weekly], volume XXII, number 34, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2, column 1:
english: Free China Weekly
translation: Free China Weekly
text: Kenting has the warmest sea and best beaches in Taiwan. It’s also a mecca for those who never tire of that mysterious fascination for the extremities of islands and continents since it’s within a few minutes’ bus ride of Oluanpi at the southern tip of Taiwan.
ref: 1982 October, Geoff Crowther, “Taiwan - Around the Country”, in Korea & Taiwan: A Travel Survival Kit (Lonely Planet), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 163, column 1:
text: Ride past Kenting to Oluanpi to see coral formations and the lighthouse.
ref: 1994, Roger Grigsby, Taiwan, Hong Kong, China's East Coast (China by Bike), The Mountaineers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 101:
text: The southernmost tip of Taiwan is eight km south-east of Kenting. Oluanpi is known for its coral gardens and lighthouse.
ref: 1994 July, Robert Storey, “South-West Taiwan”, in Taiwan - A Travel Survival Kit, 3rd edition, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 229, column 1:
text: Stretching from north of Tainan to the island’s southernmost tip at Oluanpi, southwest Taiwan is a world far removed from the crowded north and the heavily cultivated central plains area.
ref: 2003, Vivien Kim, editor, Taiwan (Insight Guides), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 229:
text: Despite stormy weather, rescuers continued to search the area where the freighter sank -- about 78 nautical miles south of Oluanpi -- in the hope that the missing crew members could be snatched from the sea water within the "golden" 72-hour period, the official surnamed Chen said.
ref: 2010 October 27, “Kaohsiung City: One dead, 12 missing after freighter capsizes off Oluanpi”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 24 Oct 2021:
text: Former Typhoon Maysak was reported to have weakened into a tropical depression as of 2 p.m. Sunday and was located about 450 kilometers south of Oluanpi (鵝鑾鼻), Taiwan's southernmost tip, moving northwest at 20 kph, according to the Central Weather Bureau (CWB).
ref: 2015 April 5, “Typhoon Maysak downgraded to tropical depression”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 04 Dec 2021, Society:
text: As of 6pm yesterday, Muifa was 515km east of Oluanpi (鵝鑾鼻), Taiwan’s southernmost point, and was moving northwest at 11kph, bureau data showed.
ref: 2022 September 11, “Sea warning likely for Typhoon Muifa, as storm approaches”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Sep 2022, Front Page, page 1:
glosses: Alternative form of Eluanbi.