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Macclesfield Bank
Disputed reefs and shoals
Macclesfield Bank
Other names
Middle Sand Islands[1]
Geography
Location
South China Sea
Coordinates
16°00′N114°30′E / 16.000°N 114.500°E / 16.000; 114.500 (South China Sea Islands center)
Total islands
0
Major islands
None
Area
6,448 km2 (2,490 sq mi)total, 0 km2 land surface/islets
Length
130 km (81 mi)
Width
70 km (43 mi)
Highest elevation
−9.2 m (-30.2 ft)
Highest point
Unnamed point below sea level
Administration
People's Republic of China
Prefecture-level city Province
Sansha[2]
Hainan
Claimed by
Republic of China (Taiwan)
Municipality
Kaohsiung
Demographics
Population
None
A 1920 American nautical chart, based on British surveys - depths in fathoms
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Macclesfield Bank is an elongated sunken atoll of underwater reefs and shoals in the South China Sea. It lies east of the Paracel Islands, southwest of Pratas Island and north of the Spratly Islands. It is about 130 km (81 mi) long from southwest to northeast, and about 70 km (43 mi) wide at its broadest part. [3] With an ocean area of 6,448 km2 (2,490 sq mi) it is one of the largest atolls of the world.[4] The Macclesfield Bank is part of what China calls the Zhongsha Islands, which includes a number of geographically separate submarine features, and also refers to a county-level administrative division.
^Jones, Gareth Wyn (2002). "Provinces". In Boland-Crewe, Tara; Lea, David (eds.). The Territories of the People's Republic of China. London: Europa Publications. p. 101. ISBN 978-0-203-40311-2.
^Ministry of Civil Affairs of the People's Republic of China (21 June 2012). 民政部关于国务院批准设立地级三沙市的公告 [Ministry of Civil Affairs Announcement about the State Council Approval of the Establishment of the Prefecture-level City of Sansha] (in Chinese (China)). Archived from the original on 25 June 2012. Retrieved 21 June 2012.
^Sailing Directions (Enroute), Pub. 161: South China Sea and the Gulf of Thailand(PDF). Sailing Directions. United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. 2020. p. 6.
^Tordesillas, Ellen (2014-09-08). "Justice Carpio: China's 9-dashed line- grand theft of Global Commons". VERA Files. Retrieved 2023-12-11.
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located in the Spratly Islands (Nansha), Paracel Islands (Xisha), and MacclesfieldBank (Zhongsha Islands). Reports in the China Daily stated that the establishment...
Australia". J. Geol., 58(4): 330–401. McNeil, F. S. 1954. "Organic reefs and banks and associated detrital sediments". Amer. J. Sci., 252(7): 385–401. Wikimedia...
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control over a region that encompasses not only the Paracels, but MacclesfieldBank, a largely sunken atoll to the east, and the Spratly Islands to the...
various other areas including Pratas Island and the Vereker Banks, the MacclesfieldBank and the Scarborough Shoal. Despite having made the vague claim...
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