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South Rock

South Rock proper noun: a rock on Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea.

Proper noun

South Rock or the South Rock

  1. A rock on Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea.
    • Miscellaneous Islands
      South Rock (15°07'N., 117°49'E.) is part of the Scarborough Shoal, which is situated on a seamount in the South China Basin. There are no known specific claims to South Rock or any of the small rocks on the Shoal; however, the Shoal would be included in the sweeping claims the...1971 September 14, RDHodgson, TVMcIntyre, South China Sea: Up for Grabs, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, published 2012, archived from the original on 12 May 2024, pages 5–6, 15, 17
    • Scarborough Reef (Huangyan Island in Chinese) is located within the geographic coordinates of 15°08’ to 15°14’N and 117°44’ to 117°48’E. It is triangular-shaped with a circumference of 46km. The total area of the feature including the inner lagoon is 150sq km. There are several rocks on the reef...2005, Zou Keyuan, “Dispute over the Scarborough Reef”, in Law of the Sea in East Asia: Issues and prospects, Routledge, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 61

Examples of South Rock in a sentence

  • There are several rocks on the reef, the biggest of which is South Rock (Nanyan).2005, Zou Keyuan, “Dispute over the Scarborough Reef”, in Law of the Sea in East Asia: Issues and prospects, Routledge, →ISBN, →OCLC, page...
  • Barely thirty-four miles in circumference, the shoal covers an area of about sixty square miles while only one of its land features, South Rock, is above water at high tide.2015, Peter Navarro, “A Hungry Cow's Tongue in the South China Sea”, in Crouching Tiger: What China's Militarism Means for the World...
  • The North Rock on the northwest end and the South Rock on the southeast end have a surface area of approximately 10 sq. meters.2016 July 12, PCA Case No. 2013-19 in the matter of the South China Sea arbitration before an Arbitral Tribunal constituted under Annex VII...
  • The MCS 3001 (replacing the MCS 3006) was now 1.6 nm northeast of South Rock still within the lagoon.2017, Michael Green, Kathleen Hicks, Zack Cooper, John Schaus, Jake Douglas, “Case Studies of Maritime Coercion”, in Countering Coercion in...

Questions about South Rock

What does South Rock mean?
South Rock means a rock on Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea.
How do you use South Rock in a sentence?
There are several rocks on the reef, the biggest of which is South Rock (Nanyan).
What part of speech is South Rock?
South Rock is a proper noun.

Words near South Rock in the dictionary

  1. South Rauceby
  2. South Region
  3. South Riana
  4. South Ribble
  5. South River
  6. South Rock
  7. South Ronaldsay
  8. South Ross
  9. South Royalton
  10. South Ruislip
  11. South Rumford

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