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Sabina Shoal is a disputed low-tide elevation [1] [2] in the Spratly Islands which is claimed by multiple states: China, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam. As a low-tide elevation that is not within the territorial sea of a littoral state, Sabina Shoal itself does not generate any territorial sea of its own per Article 13 of the United ...
Chart 93046 – approx. 8–10°N, 115–117°E; [6] Sailing Directions pp11–12. [1] 1.30 & 1.31 Eastern SE Half Moon Shoal, Bombay Reef, Royal Captain Shoal; 1.32 Central SE Sabina Shoal, Boxall Reef, Second Thomas Shoal; 1.33 & 1.34 Western SE Mischief Reef, First Thomas Shoal, Alicia Annie Reef
Jackson Atoll , Nanshan Island, Flat Island, Third Thomas Shoal, Hopkins Reef , Amy Douglas Bank /Hirane Shoal, Hardy Reef /Hubo Reef, Sandy Shoal , Lord Auckland Shoal , Carnatic Shoal , Seahorse Shoal /Seashore Shoal/Routh Shoal, Iroquois Reef , Leslie Bank , Templar Bank , Southern Bank (Spratly Islands) , Katimugan Banks [dubious ...
China refers to Sabina Shoal as Xianbin Reef, while the Philippines calls it Escoda Shoal. It is an atoll located 150 km (93 miles) from the western Philippine island of Palawan.
The Chinese name for Sabina Shoal is Xianbin Reef. In a separate statement, he said a Philippine ship that was turned away from Sabina Shoal entered waters near the disputed Second Thomas Shoal ...
The Sabina Shoal, known locally as Escoda, is the rendezvous point for vessels resupplying Filipino troops stationed on a grounded warship at the Second Thomas Shoal, where Manila and China have ...
Bombay Castle, also known in Vietnamese: Đá Ba Kè; Mandarin Chinese: 蓬勃堡; pinyin: Péngbó Bǎo; [1] Abad Santos Shoal (Filipino: Buhanginan ng Abad Santos, lit. 'Sandbank of Abad Santos'), is a reef with a lighthouse in the Rifleman Bank of the southern Spratly Islands.
An early European map, A correct chart of the China Seas of 1758 by William Herbert, left the Spratly Islands region (known then as the Dangerous Ground) as largely blank, indicating that region has yet to be properly surveyed, although some islands and shoals at its western edge were marked (one appears at the same place as Thitu Island).