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Bashi Channel

name
/ˈbɑʃi/

Etymology

From Bashi + channel. Bashee, later Bashi, is from a local language term for a type of liquor drunk plentifully by the crew of William Dampier when they landed on an island south of the channel, as reported in Dampier's book the popular sensation A New Voyage Round the World (page 422) published in 1697. According to Dampier, the crew named the island after the liquor. The channel would take the name of the island. (See also basi.)

  1. derived from canālis — “groove; canal; channel”
  2. derived from chanel
  3. inherited from chanel
  4. compounded as bashi channel — “Bashi + channel”

Definitions

  1. The strait, part of Luzon Strait, dividing Mavulis Island of the Philippines and Orchid…

    The strait, part of Luzon Strait, dividing Mavulis Island of the Philippines and Orchid Island/Lanyu of Taiwan and connecting the South China Sea/Taiwan Strait and Philippine Sea/Pacific Ocean.

    • The islands on the North side of the Bashi Channel will be described hereafter.
    • The Batanes are separated from Formosa by the Bashi Channel, which has a minimum depth of 1,009 fathoms, and from the Babuyanes by the Balintang Channel, which has a minimum depth of 95 fathoms.

The neighborhood

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