Raffles Island
The Sijiao Island is the largest island in the Shengsi Islands with an area of 21.2 km2. The island has a subtropical climate with the yearly average temperature of 15.8 °C. It is administrated by Shengsi County, a part of Zhoushan Prefecture of China.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: island
- Also known as: “San-chiao Shan”, “Sau Chiao Shan”, “Shih-tzu-shan Tao”, “Sijiao Island”, “Ssu-chiao”, “Ssu-chiao Shan”, and “Ssu-chiao Tao”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Gouqi Island.
Gouqi Island
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Shengsi Islands are in the Zhoushan Archipelago, Zhejiang, China. This is the archipelago just east of Shanghai / Hangzhou. Gouqi Dao is one of the most famous of these islands for tourism—including fishing, gouqi harvesting, and its abandoned villages.
Raffles Island
- Category: landform
- Location: Zhejiang, East China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Wu Chinese—“Raffles Island” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Sijiao uhartea”
- Cebuano: “Sijiao Shan”
- Chinese: “泗礁山”
- Chinese: “泗礁山岛”
- Dutch: “Sijiao Island”
- Spanish: “Isla Sijiao”
- Swedish: “Sijiao Shan (ö)”
- Swedish: “Sijiao Shan”
- Wu Chinese: “泗礁山”
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