Which former British colony stands on the delta of the Pearl River?
"Delta Economic Zone is also a highly attractive consumer market. Cities such as Shenzhen and Guangzhou are among the most affluent in the Chinese Mainland. Close links to Hong Kong and Macau mean that Pearl River Delta region consumers adopt international tastes earlier than most places in China, making the region one of the trend setters in China. In 1979, the Central Government of the People's Republic of China announced that Guangdong Province would be allowed to follow less restrictive economic policies and would be permitted to set up three Special Economic Zones (SEZs), including two in the Pearl River"
"Xiaoguwei Xiaoguwei, formerly known in English as , is an island in the Pearl River Delta of China's Guangdong Province. It is now administered as part of Xinzao (), a town in Guangzhou's Panyu District. The Guangzhou Higher Education Mega Center now occupies the entire island. Xiaoguwei is about . During the Canton trade, Xiaoguwei was used by French crews for repairs and burials. It lay on the southeastern side of the Huangpu or ""Whampoa"" anchorage. French access to Guangzhou was, however, frequently blocked by the British Navy amid its colonial, revolutionary, and Napoleonic Wars. Xiaoguwei is connected with Luntou"
"Pearl Lagoon Pearl Lagoon (, ) is a town in the municipality by the same name and was historically known as English Bank. It is located in South Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region (RACCS) of Nicaragua. It is the largest coastal lagoon in RACCS. Pearl Lagoon is home to 8,658 inhabitants as of 2005. About a century ago it was considered to be the second capital of the Miskito Kingdom when the last Miskito king took up residence in the city. He arrived there after Henry Clarence deposed him in Bluefields in 1894. At that time, Pearl Lagoon was called ""the"
"Hill to Pearl Lagoon. As of 2011, the road permitted direct access to Pearl Lagoon from Managua by road. Pearl Lagoon Pearl Lagoon (, ) is a town in the municipality by the same name and was historically known as English Bank. It is located in South Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region (RACCS) of Nicaragua. It is the largest coastal lagoon in RACCS. Pearl Lagoon is home to 8,658 inhabitants as of 2005. About a century ago it was considered to be the second capital of the Miskito Kingdom when the last Miskito king took up residence in the city. He"
"Portland, Victoria Portland is a small city in Victoria, Australia, and is the oldest European settlement in the state. It is also the main urban centre in the Shire of Glenelg and is located on Portland Bay. The bay was named in 1800 by the British navigator James Grant, who sailed in the ""Lady Nelson"" along the Victorian coast. ""I also distinguished the Bay by the name of Portland Bay, in honour of His Grace the Duke of Portland"", wrote Grant. The bay, the only deep sea port between Adelaide and Melbourne, offers a sheltered anchorage against the often wild"
"England by Lord Palmerston and which were called ""Palmerston's follies"". Later, similar forts built by the Europeans in China came to be called ""folly fort"" or simply ""folly"". The French Folly and Dutch Folly were forts in the Pearl River in Guangzhou (then romanized as ""Canton""), which the Europeans used during the Second Opium War. The Dutch folly was located at , which was then a small island in the river. Today two skyscrapers stand in the same place, which is at the water's edge and no longer an island due to land reclamation. The French folly was located at"
"about a shortcoming of capitalism in ""Das Kapital"". Swan River Colony The Swan River Colony was a British colony established in 1829 on the Swan River, in Western Australia. The name was a ""pars pro toto"" for Western Australia. In 1832 the colony was renamed the Colony of Western Australia, when the colony's founding lieutenant-governor, Captain James Stirling, belatedly received his commission. However, the name ""Swan River Colony"" remained in informal use for many years afterwards. The first recorded Europeans to sight land where the city of Perth is now located were Dutch sailors. Most likely the first visitor to"
"Calala Island Calala Island is a private island located in the Caribbean sea, forming part of an archipelago of islands known as the Pearl Cays, off the coast of Nicaragua. The island was historically used by the British as a stop off point for Merchant ships in the 1600s and by pirates during the Caribbean's Golden Age of Piracy. Calala Island is privately owned by the Wickham family who purchased the island in 2015. The whole island operates as a luxury resort, accommodating a maximum of 8 guests. During these recent times, it has had a number of notable guests"
"the Pearl River Delta. This trend has however abated after 2003, after the country's continued economic reforms. Development of other parts of the city and substantial increase in English levels of university graduates have made life in the city proper more acceptable to many foreigners without school-age children. In 2003, the local government, seeking to capitalize on the foreign flavor of the area, invested in a complete make-over of Sea World, turning it into a western-style entertainment area centered on the grounded Minghua (明华) ship, a 14,000 ton, 168 m long vessel built in 1962 as a French ferry vessel"
"are located in Opal Close, bookings required. Lap swimming is available at the rock pool located at the southern end of the beach. Pearl Beach, New South Wales Pearl Beach is a suburb of on the Central Coast of New South Wales, Australia. Pearl Beach was assigned 'suburb' status by the Geographical Names Board of NSW on 25 October 1991. Pearl Beach has a rich Indigenous history that is largely ignored by historical markers which have been erected in the community to commemorate visits by white settlers. On 2 March 1788 Captain Arthur Phillip sailed north from Sydney Cove, Port"
"Changzhou Island Changzhou Island, formerly known in English as Dane or , is an island in the Pearl River Delta of China's Guangdong Province. It is now administered as part of Guangzhou's Huangpu District, although the historic Huangpu Island was nearby Pazhou, which forms part of Haizhu District. Changzhou is about , of which is dry land. During the Canton trade, Changzhou was used by Danish crews for repairs and burials. It lay on the eastern side of the Huangpu or ""Whampoa"" anchorage. The island was the site of Sun Yat-sen's Whampoa Military Academy (. 1924) and the 1926 ""Zhongshan"""
"of the fort, probably including the chapel and graveyard, lie on private property not open for digging and the fort's southern portion is under a public road. The excavation was concluded in 2005. A portion of the site is now a small public park west of Fort Popham. (Text from 1866) Popham Colony The Popham Colony—also known as the Sagadahoc Colony—was a short-lived English colonial settlement in North America that was founded in 1607 and located in the present-day town of Phippsburg, Maine, near the mouth of the Kennebec River by the proprietary Virginia Company of Plymouth. It was founded"
"Pearl Beach, New South Wales Pearl Beach is a suburb of on the Central Coast of New South Wales, Australia. Pearl Beach was assigned 'suburb' status by the Geographical Names Board of NSW on 25 October 1991. Pearl Beach has a rich Indigenous history that is largely ignored by historical markers which have been erected in the community to commemorate visits by white settlers. On 2 March 1788 Captain Arthur Phillip sailed north from Sydney Cove, Port Jackson, to the inlet described by Captain James Cook in 1770 as a ""broken land"" (id est Broken Bay). As entered in their"
"Popham Colony The Popham Colony—also known as the Sagadahoc Colony—was a short-lived English colonial settlement in North America that was founded in 1607 and located in the present-day town of Phippsburg, Maine, near the mouth of the Kennebec River by the proprietary Virginia Company of Plymouth. It was founded a few months after its more successful rival, the colony at Jamestown, which was established on May 4, 1607, by the Virginia Company of London in present-day James City County, Virginia. The Popham Colony was the first colony in the region that would eventually become known as New England, coming five"
"Macau Macau or Macao (; , ; ), officially the Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, is an autonomous territory on the western side of the Pearl River estuary in East Asia. Along with Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, and several other major cities in Guangdong, the territory forms a core part of the Pearl River Delta metropolitan region. With a population of 650,900 in an area of , it is the most densely populated region in the world. Macau was formerly a colony of the Portuguese Empire, after Ming China leased the territory as a"
"in the US, Canada, Australia, Latin America, and much of Southeast Asia traces their ancestry to this region. Its dominant language is Cantonese. The river delta, also known as the Golden Delta of Guangdong, is formed by three major rivers, the Xi Jiang (West River), Bei Jiang (North River), and Dong Jiang (East River). The flat lands of the delta are criss-crossed by a network of tributaries and distributaries of the Pearl River. The Pearl River Delta is actually two alluvial deltas, separated by the core branch of the Pearl River. The Bei Jiang and Xi Jiang converge to flow"
"between 917 and 971. Large waves of Chinese migration throughout succeeding Chinese dynasties assimilated huge numbers of Yue aborigines, with the result that today's Southern Han Chinese Yue-speaking population is descended from both groups. The colloquial layers of Yue varieties contain elements influenced by the Tai languages formerly spoken widely in the area and still spoken by people such as the Zhuang or the Dong. The port city of Guangzhou lies in the middle of Pearl River Delta, with access to the interior via the West River, North River and East River, which all converge at the delta. It has"
"English Harbour English Harbour is a natural harbour and settlement on the island of Antigua, in the extreme south of the island. The settlement takes its name from the nearby harbour in which the Royal Navy established its base of operations for the area during the eighteenth century. Its population is 759 (2001 Census). English Harbour is a centre of boating, especially yachting. There are two sheltered deepwater harbours nearby; English Harbour itself and Falmouth Harbour. English Harbour is best known for Nelson's Dockyard, a former British Navy base; it displays restored 18th and 19th-century buildings and other historical artifacts"
"Pearl Harbour, New Zealand Pearl Harbour is a small harbour at the head of the Waiau River, in the town of Manapouri on the South Island of New Zealand. The harbour and town are located at the south-east corner of Lake Manapouri. The name was given to the harbour soon after the Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor in Hawaii in 1941. Pearl Harbour is used mainly by ferry and water taxi operators transporting Meridian Energy staff across Lake Manapouri to the Manapouri Hydroelectric Power Station, on the West Arm of the lake. Ferries also carry tourists travelling to the power"
"Gambia Colony and Protectorate The Gambia Colony and Protectorate was the British colonial administration of the Gambia from 1821 to 1965, part of the British Empire in the New Imperialism era. The colony was the immediate area surrounding Bathurst (now Banjul), and the protectorate was the inland territory situated around the Gambia River, which was declared in 1894. The foundation of the colony was Fort James and Bathurst, where British presence was established in 1815 and 1816, respectively. For various periods in its existence it was subordinate to the Sierra Leone Colony, however by 1888 it was a colony in"
"the Pearl River Delta region and Guangdong province. It is also vital transport hub for industries located in neighboring provinces such as Guangxi, Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Hunan, Hubei and Jiangxi. Guangzhou was an important port during the ancient times as far back as the Qin Dynasty. It served as a trading port as the ""Silk Road on the Sea"". The port became one of China's busiest ports during the Ming dynasty and Qing dynasty. Guangzhou Port is situated at the intersection of the three most important rivers of Dongjiang, Xijiang and Beijiang in South China. All the three rivers have"
"the vicinity. Citations References Brunswick Rock Brunswick Rock is a 19th century name for an obstruction in the Pearl River a little above the First Bar. It received its name after the East Indiaman grounded there in 1798. Later other vessels, such as and also grounded there. All were refloated. Then in 1815 the country ship ""Windham"" was wrecked on the Brunswick Rock, though her crew were rescued. At the time she was on a voyage from Bengal, India to China. During the First Opium War, the British Royal Navy defeated the Qing dynasty Imperial Chinese Navy in the Battle"
"exactly known except that it is in the Pearl River Delta, and scholarship has suggested islands such as Lantau Island and Lintin Island as potential candidates. Upon landing on Tamão, Álvares raised a ""padrão"" from the king of Portugal. Based on information from their captain, they hoped to find trade. Soon after this, Afonso de Albuquerque, the Viceroy of the Estado da Índia dispatched Rafael Perestrello—a cousin of Christopher Columbus—to seek trade relations with the Chinese. In a ship from Malacca, Rafael Perestrello landed on the southern shores of Guangdong later that year in 1513. Álvares later joined the venture"
"Panyu District Panyu, formerly romanized as Punyu, is a district of Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong province in southern China. It is the site of the oldest parts of Guangzhou, dating back to the Qin Empire, although it was a separate county-level city before its incorporation into modern Guangzhou. The present district covers an area of about . Panyu lies at the heart of the Pearl River Delta, its boundary straddles from latitudes 22.26' to 23.05', and sprawls from longitudes 113.14' to 113.42'. Facing the Lion Sea in the east and the estuary of the Pearl River in the south,"
"base, Macao. Lampacau Lampacau or Lampacao, also known by other names, was a small island in the Pearl River Delta, which in the mid-16th century played an important role in Sino-Portuguese trade. Lampacau no longer exists as a separate island, as sedimentary deposits from the Pearl River system resulted in it becoming a part of a larger island. The exact location of Lampacau has been a somewhat of a puzzle to the students of the region's historical geography, since both the coastlines and the place names in the area have changed significantly since the 16th century. The Portuguese maps of"
"River Delta. In this small island, there are 17 temples here, which discloses the richness of its historic memories. For instance, Cundong started building in Song Dynasty and Wenchang Palace built in Qing Dynasty during the reign of the Tongzhi Emperor. Also, in October 1833 before the first Opium War between China and British, there was an event, Qi'ao Cun Event, known as the struggle against foreign aggression, which plays a vital role in the history of Chinese people against foreign aggression. At that time, British fleets invaded Qi'ao Island from the ocean, intending to sell opium there. However, the"
"Pender Harbour, British Columbia Pender Harbour is a harbour on British Columbia's Sunshine Coast, on the east side of Malaspina Strait. The harbour is an intricate amalgam of bays and coves that encroach inland for five kilometres and provide over sixty kilometres of shoreline. Once a steamer stop, a fishing village, and an important logging and medical waypoint, it is now an unincorporated community within the Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD). Pender Harbour's population is under 3,000, with over 40% of property owners being non-resident (one of them Joni Mitchell, since the early-1970s). Pender Harbour includes the small villages of"
"Portland Canal The Portland Canal is an arm of Portland Inlet, one of the principal inlets of the British Columbia Coast. It is approximately long. The Portland Canal forms part of the border between southeastern Alaska and British Columbia. The name of the entire inlet in the Nisga'a language is K'alii Xk'alaan, with /xk/alaan/ meaning ""at the back of (someplace)"". The upper end of the inlet was home to the Tsetsaut (""Jits'aawit"" in Nisga'a), who after being decimated by war and disease were taken under the protection of the Laxsgiik (Eagle) chief of the Nisga'a, who holds the inlet's title"
"the Pearl River. The branch line to Sanshui (""Samshui"") via Foshan (""Fatshan"") was constructed westward from the west bank of the Pearl from 1902 to 1904. A diplomatic crisis erupted when it was discovered that a Belgian consortium had purchased a controlling interest in the American China Development Company. This subverted the original intention of awarding different railway lines to different foreign powers. The American financier J. P. Morgan bought a large stake in the company in November 1904, but the concession was cancelled on November 19, 1904. Morgan demanded in compensation but settled for million, representing treble damages for"
"Pearl Harbor Pearl Harbor is a lagoon harbor on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, west of Honolulu. It has been long visited by the Naval fleet of the United States, before it was acquired from the Hawaiian Kingdom by the U.S. with the signing of the Reciprocity Treaty of 1875. Much of the harbor and surrounding lands is now a United States Navy deep-water naval base. It is also the headquarters of the United States Pacific Fleet. The U.S. government first obtained exclusive use of the inlet and the right to maintain a repair and coaling station for ships here"
"Hong Kong Hong Kong (; ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, is a special administrative region on the eastern side of the Pearl River estuary in southern China. With over 7.4 million people of various nationalities in a territory, Hong Kong is the world's fourth-most-densely-populated region. Hong Kong became a colony of the British Empire after Qing China ceded Hong Kong Island at the end of the First Opium War in 1842. The colony expanded to the Kowloon Peninsula in 1860 after the Second Opium War, and was further extended when Britain"
"Pearse Canal Pearse Canal is a channel or strait forming part of the Canada–United States border at the southern end of the Alaska Panhandle and adjacent to the mouth of Portland Inlet. It is on the northwest side of Wales and Pearse Islands, which are in British Columbia, Canada, and forms part of the southwestern edge of Misty Fjords National Monument in Alaska, United States. The southwest entrance to the strait is between Phipp Point and Maie Point, both in Alaska. The strait was named by Captain Daniel Pender in 1868 as part of surveying of the coast, in association"
"a colony should supplement, rather than compete with or undermine, the economic efforts and products of the metropolitan country. This was a survival of the mercantilist system which had come to grief in the last quarter of the eighteenth century. Southern Nigeria Protectorate Southern Nigeria was a British protectorate in the coastal areas of modern-day Nigeria formed in 1900 from the union of the Niger Coast Protectorate with territories chartered by the Royal Niger Company below Lokoja on the Niger River. The Lagos colony was later added in 1906, and the territory was officially renamed the Colony and Protectorate of"