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Panatag Shoal

Scarborough Shoal, also known as Panacot, Bajo de Masinloc, Huangyan Island Minzhu Jiao, and Panatag Shoal, is a coral atoll/reef with an inner lagoon and several rocks above high tide, located between Macclesfield Bank to the west and to the east.
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  • Type: Locality
  • Description: atoll and reef in the South China Sea
  • Also known as: “Bajo de Masinloc”, “Democracy Reef”, “Huángyán Dǎo”, “Huangyan Island”, “Huangyan Islets”, “Mínzhǔ Jiāo”, “Scarborough Reef”, “Scarborough Shoal”, and “Scarborough Shoal, Scarborough Reef”
  • Historically known as: “Scarboro‘ Reef”

Panatag Shoal

Latitude
15.16324° or 15° 9′ 48″ north
Longitude
117.77913° or 117° 46′ 45″ east
Open location code
7P7V5Q7H+7M
Open­Street­Map ID
way 1274527881
Geo­Names ID
11993394
Wiki­data ID
Q628716
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Satellite Map

Discover Panatag Shoal from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Panatag Shoal” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Bajo de Masinloc”
  • Arabic: “سكاربورو شول”
  • Bengali: “স্কারবরো শোল”
  • Bengali: “স্কারবোরো সোয়াল”
  • Catalan: “Escull Scarborough”
  • Chinese: “民主礁”
  • Chinese: “黃岩島”
  • Chinese: “黃巖島”
  • Chinese: “黄岩岛”
  • Czech: “Scarborough Shoal”
  • Danish: “Scarborough Shoal”
  • Dutch: “Scarborough-rif”
  • Esperanto: “Rifo de Scarborough”
  • Filipino: “Kulumpol ng Panatag”
  • Finnish: “Scarborough’n matalikko”
  • Finnish: “Scarboroughin matalikko”
  • French: “récif de Scarborough”
  • French: “Récif de Scarborough”
  • German: “Scarborough-Riff”
  • Greek: “Σκαρμπόροου”
  • Greek: “Ύφαλος Σκάρμπορο”
  • Gujarati: “સ્કારબોરો શોલ”
  • Hebrew: “סקרבורו שואל”
  • Hindi: “स्कारबरो शोल”
  • Hungarian: “Scarborough-zátony”
  • Indonesian: “Gosong Scarborough”
  • Italian: “Scarborough Shoal”
  • Italian: “Secca di Scarborough”
  • Japanese: “スカボロー礁”
  • Kannada: “ಸ್ಕಾರ್ಬರೊ ಶೋಲ್”
  • Korean: “스카버러 암초”
  • Latvian: “Skārboro sēklis”
  • Lithuanian: “Skarboro sekluma”
  • Macedonian: “Скарборски Гребен”
  • Malay: “Beting Scarborough”
  • Malay: “Scarborough Shoal”
  • Marathi: “स्कार्बरो शोल”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Panatagrevene”
  • Norwegian: “Panatagrevene”
  • Persian: “سد ساحلی اسکاربرو”
  • Polish: “Huangyan Dao”
  • Portuguese: “Recife de Masinloc”
  • Portuguese: “Recife Scarborough”
  • Portuguese: “Scarborough Shoal”
  • Russian: “Скарборо-Шол”
  • Sinhala: “ස්කාබෝරෝ ශෝආල්”
  • Sinhala: “ස්කාර්බෝරෝ ශඔල්”
  • Slovenian: “Panataška plitvina”
  • Slovenian: “Scarboroughška plitvina”
  • Slovenian: “Scarboroughški greben”
  • Spanish: “Atolón Scarborough”
  • Spanish: “Bajo de Masainloc”
  • Spanish: “Bajo de Masinloc”
  • Swedish: “Scarboroughrevet”
  • Tagalog: “Bajo de Masinloc”
  • Tagalog: “Kulumpol ng Panatag”
  • Tamil: “ஸ்கேர்போரூக்ஹ் ஷால்”
  • Telugu: “స్కార్బొరో షోయల్”
  • Telugu: “స్కార్బొరో షోల్”
  • Thai: “สคาร์โบโร โชล”
  • Thai: “สันทรายสคาร์โบโร่”
  • Turkish: “Scarborough Shoal”
  • Turkish: “Scarborough Sığlığı”
  • Ukrainian: “Мілина Панатаг”
  • Ukrainian: “Мілина Скарборо”
  • Ukrainian: “Риф Скарборо”
  • Urdu: “سکاربورووگھ شوال”
  • Urdu: “سکیربورو شوال”
  • Vietnamese: “Bãi cạn Scarborough”
  • Yue Chinese: “黃巖島”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Panatag Shoal”. Photo: NASA, Public domain.