Tung

proper noun

1. 1

   Synonym of Lincoln Island.

   A U.S. military plane intruded into China's air space over the area of Tung Island of the Hsisha Islands in Kwangtung Province between 16:00 hours and 16:03 hours on February 9. A spokesman of the Chinese Foreign Ministry has been authorised, in relation to this military provocation by the U.S. military plane, to issue the 482nd serious warning.

   “From 1840 hours on March 18, 1972 to 0935 hours on March 20, 1972, one U.S. warship, the George K. MacKenzie intruded into Chinese territorial waters near Tung Island, 16°, 14', 6” north, 112°, 43', 48” east, off the Hsi Sha Islands, Kwantung^([sic – meaning Kwangtung]) Province, China.

   Every island in Hsisha is a veritable treasure island. The Tung Island is the home of large flocks of boobies. As these birds feed on fish, the fishermen are sure to get to the site of large shoals by following the direction of their flight.

   Sitting on a driftwood bench near the guano-spattered tents that are the biologists' summer homes and with downy tern chicks waddling by her feet, Dr. Cao said she had spent the past three years studying red-footed boobies on tropical Dong Island in the Xisha Archipelago of the South China Sea.