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Truro Shoal

Truro Shoal proper noun: a shoal in the South China Sea.

Proper noun

Truro Shoal or the Truro Shoal

  1. A shoal in the South China Sea.
    • The March 1992 CIA map includes the Macclesfield Bank, the Truro Shoal and the Scarborough Reef as belonging in the Paracel Archipelago. As there are only Chinese claims to the Macclesfield Bank (and presumably to both the Truro Shoal and the Scarborough Reef), this debatable point appears to be...1994, Mark Albert Hoyt, Sino-Vietnamese interests collide in the South China Sea: A case study of the disputed Paracel and Spratly archipelagos, University of Hawaii, →OCLC, page 8
    • On 19 November 2007, China created the district of Sansha which encompasses the Paracels (Xisha Qundao), the Spratlys (Nansha qundao) and Zhongsha qundao, a fictitious archipelago which gathers the submarine elevation of Macclesfield Bank, the submarine elevation of Truro shoal and Scarborough...2015, Daniel Schaeffer, “The Legacy of the Nine-Dashed Line: Past, Present, and Future”, in The South China Sea: Challenges and Promises, Xlibris, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 107

Examples of Truro Shoal in a sentence

  • The March 1992 CIA map includes the Macclesfield Bank, the Truro Shoal and the Scarborough Reef as belonging in the Paracel Archipelago.1994, Mark Albert Hoyt, Sino-Vietnamese interests collide in the South China Sea: A case study of the disputed Paracel and Spratly...
  • Marc remembered the impact as the Lynx collided with the whitecaps off Truro Shoal, the cold waters of the South China Sea filling the helicopters cockpit and battering him back against his seat.2016, James Swallow, Nomad, Zaffre, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 253:

Origin of Truro Shoal

Named after the ship Truro.

Questions about Truro Shoal

What does Truro Shoal mean?
Truro Shoal means a shoal in the South China Sea.
How do you use Truro Shoal in a sentence?
The March 1992 CIA map includes the Macclesfield Bank, the Truro Shoal and the Scarborough Reef as belonging in the Paracel Archipelago.
What part of speech is Truro Shoal?
Truro Shoal is a proper noun.

Words near Truro Shoal in the dictionary

  1. Trupti
  2. Truran
  3. Trurans
  4. Truro
  5. Truro River
  6. Truro Shoal
  7. Truronian
  8. TRUS
  9. Truscello
  10. Truscellos
  11. Truscheit

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