Quelpaert
Quelpaert proper noun: jeju, an island of South Korea.
Proper noun
Quelpaert
- Jeju, an island of South Korea.
- A Dutch Vessel, in the year 1653, being bound from Batavia to Japan, after suffering a most violent Storm of several days continuance, springing a Leak so wide that there was no means to drain the Water that rush’d into the Hold, several that happen’d to be then under Deck were drowned before they...c. 1653, The Faber Book of Exploration, Faber and Faber, published 2002, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 44
- At night they gave us more rice to eat ; and our master, having made an observation, found we were in the island of Quelpaert, which is thirty-three degrees thirty-two minutes of latitude.1885, William Elliot Griffis, “The Kind Corean Governor”, in Corea, Without and Within: Chapters on Corean History, Manners and Religion with Hendrick Hamel's Narrative of Captivity and Travels in...
Forms of Quelpaert
| alternative form | Quelparte |
|---|---|
| alternative form | Quelpart |
Origin of Quelpaert
A name applied by Dutch sailor Hendrick Hamel and used in Europe.
Questions about Quelpaert
- What does Quelpaert mean?
- Quelpaert means jeju, an island of South Korea.
- What part of speech is Quelpaert?
- Quelpaert is a proper noun.
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