Neilingding Island

China / Hongkong / Zhunmen /
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nei_Lingding_Island
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Coordinates:   22°24'46"N   113°48'0"E

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  • Personally, it should be administratived by Shenzhen in future for better development.
  • What do you mean by better development?
  • When the Portuguese explorer Jorge Álvares landed on Nei Lingding Island (known in early European sources as Lintin Island) in May 1513,[1] his was the first known arrival of a European-flagged ship to set anchor on the coast of China.[2] Opiums ships at Lintin in 1824, by William John Huggins. In the early 19th century Nei Lingding (Lintin) Island was called the "outer anchorage" for European ships traveling to Guangzhou. They would have to stop at the island, have their cargo inspected and measured by the Chinese customs officials stationed at the island, and pay customs duties. When in 1821 Chinese government prohibited importation of opium into the country's ports, Lintin became a base of drug smugglers; old boats hulks, anchored near the island, served as warehouses and depots where imported opium would be reloaded to smaller boats to be smuggled into Guangzhou and other ports. From the 1830s and until the conquest of Hong Kong in the 1840s, Lintin Island was the main base for British merchants in the Pearl River Delta area
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