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		In 1895, Spain had not defined “the middle of the navigable channel of Bashi.” The negotiations between Spain and the US in 1898 clearly specified that it was located on the “20th parallel of the north latitude” and officially recognized that the islands north of this line belonged to Japan.
		As the Spanish negotiator at the time understood it, the Bashi Strait is the strait stretching from Taiwan to Luzon Island, which places the middle along the 20th parallel.
		Following navigation practice at the time, there were two navigable lanes in the Bashi Strait: one was the Bashi Channel between Taiwan and the Batan Islands, and the other was the Balintang Channel between the Batan Islands and the Babuyan Islands.
	www.manilastandardtoday.com /?page=antonioAbaya_jan30_2007 (1253 words)

	location (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The members of its indigenous tribe are called Yami, and belong to the Malayo-Polynesian group.
		They speak a Bashiic dialect, which is part of the large family of Austronesian languages.
		The Bashi area is defined as the area comprising the islands of the northernmost and smallest province of the Philippines known as Batanes, as well as the Bashi Channel itself and Irala.
	www.uga.edu /~cml/wl/location.html (97 words)

	The Saga of the 1972 Guardfish P
		Once in the Philippine Sea the Echo turned southwest heading in the general direction of the Bashi Channel, the strait between Taiwan and the islands north of Luzon Philippines.
		The Bashi is the usual northern entrance to the South China Sea and the skipper was sure that it was the Echo’s objective, but their track continued well south of the normal course.
		After transiting the Bashi Channel the Echo established a second patrol area in the Philippine Sea south of Okinawa.
	www.guardfish.org /missions/saga_of_the_1972_guardfish_patrol.htm (1353 words)

	Luzon Strait
		The strait is divided into a number of smaller channels.
		The Babuyan Channel[?] separates Luzon from the Babuyan Islands, which is separated from the Batanes Islands by the Balintang Channel[?].
		Batanes is separated from Taiwan by the Bashi Channel[?].
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/lu/Luzon_Strait.html (182 words)

	chapt5
		The archaeology of the Bashi area, the material cultures and the linguistic affinities between the languages of the area support the theory that the Yami have a common cultural heritage with the rest of the Bashiic cultures.
		While it is a folkloric monument to the vivid imagination of the Yami, it also presents such striking similarities with the adventures of Odysseus that the temptation to speculate regarding the diffusion of this theme is very hard to resist.
		The record of boats lost in the treacherous waters of the Bashi Channel, and the list of people who lost their lives during crossings between Ivatan and Itbayat, are very long.
	www.uga.edu /~asian-lp/jpn_html/yami/chapt5.html (6099 words)

	Map of Bashi Channel (strait), Pacific Ocean - World Atlas - MSN Encarta
		Map of Bashi Channel (strait), Pacific Ocean - World Atlas - MSN Encarta
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	encarta.msn.com /map_701519082/Bashi_Channel.html (30 words)

	batanes
		In any case, I believe that "middle of the Bashi Channel" referred to in the Treaty of Paris does refer to the actual geographical middle of the Bashi Channel near the 20th north latitude, or around the 21st north latitude.
		The reference to the Bashi channel, which expresses a natural and ordinary meaning, prevails over the concurrent reference to the 20th parallel, which renders Article III ambiguous because it is a technical term that is not naturally and ordinarily used.
		What is important, however, is that the Bashi channel was clearly identified as the location of the dividing line.
	www.geocities.com /dapat_tapatt/batanes.html (6584 words)

	The Selga Chronology, 1901-1934
		A typhoon appeared in the Pacific to the E of northern Luzon, approached Bashi and Balintang Channels, moved northward to the east of Formosa, recurved NE to the west of the Loochoos Islands, crossed Japan, traversed the Sea of Japan and inclined northward towards Manchuria.
		SW of Formosa, Formosa Channel, Foochow, Strait of Soya
		A typhoon formed in the Pacific east of Luzon, moved NW, passed east of Aparri and Basco, and recurved east of the Bashi Channel, moving northeastward to Japan and passing close to the western coast of the Nippon Island.
	www.ucm.es /info/tropical/selga-ii.html (9162 words)

	Sealion
		Refitted by Fulton (AS-11), Sealion departed for the Bashi Channel and her second war patrol on 17 August.
		Hunting with Growler (SS-215) and Pampanito (SS-383), she transited the channel and moved into the South China Sea on 30 August.
		On the llth, she rendezvoused with two other submarines; and, on the 12th, the group attacked and decimated a convoy en route to Formosa.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/s8/sealion-ii.htm (2391 words)

	Taipei Times - archives
		The Spanish representative opposed the US representative's position that the area south of 21 degrees 30 minutes north latitude should be ceded to the US.
		At the time -- 1895 to 1898 -- the Bashi Channel was not the navigable sea lane normally used.
		In a letter to US Secretary of State John Hay on Jan. 12, 1899, John Bassett Moore, legal council to the US negotiation delegation, wrote that he believed the dispute regarding the Batan Islands located north of the 20th parallel could be discussed with Japan and resolved by reaching an agreement.
	www.taipeitimes.com /News/editorials/archives/2004/09/23/2003204030 (1496 words)

	Asia Turns To Time-Tested Solution For Damaged Internet Cables
		Global Marine has two ships in the Bashi Channel and Luzon Strait area, between Taiwan and the Philippines, while other firms have provided four more ships, he said.
		The vessels, specially designed to repair submarine cables, are more than 100 metres (yards) long and carry about 60 British officers and Filipino crewmen, he said.
		Walters said one ship is waiting for 30 to 40 mile-an-hour winds (48 to 64 kilometres- an-hour) to die down in the Bashi Channel.
	www.spacemart.com /reports/Asia_Turns_To_Time_Tested_Solution_For_Damaged_Internet_Cables_999.html (1146 words)

	All About Batanes - Asia Finest Discussion Forum
		Batanes is the Philippines´nothernmost province, lying in a vast expanse of water where the Pacific Ocean on the east merges with the south China Sea on the west.
		Its other boundaries are Bashi channel on the north and Balintang Channel on the south.
		Its capital town of Basco is abouth 280 km north of Aparri, Cagayan, on the northern tip of Luzon Island.
	www.asiafinest.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=11363 (3394 words)

	frontline: dangerous straits: interviews: chen pi-chao
		He warns FRONTLINE that "to succumb to China is not going to be the peace of our times; it's going to be the beginning of potentially a war." Interview conducted early autumn 2001.
		As early as 1992, 52 percent of the global shipping in tonnage pass through the two straits adjacent to Taiwan -- that is the Taiwan Strait and Bashi [Channel] separating Taiwan from the Philippines.
		Even by their own admissions, the corruption of Communist Party officers into this channel makes the corruption of the nationalists back in the late 1940s look like a Mary Poppins business.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/china/interviews/chen.html (2072 words)

	Altimetry in Marginal, Semi-Enclosed and Coastal Seas - Part I: Labrador Sea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The straits to the Pacific Ocean are deeper, with the Bashi Channel having a 2600m sill depth.
		The South China Sea bathymetry shows the deep basin of the South China Sea and the broad, shallow Sunda Shelf in the south.
		Pacific water enters the South China Sea through both the Bashi Channel and from the Celebes Sea via the Sulu Sea through the Balabac Strait.
	www.ssc.erc.msstate.edu /Altimetry/south_china_sea.html (416 words)

	Worcester
		Reaching Colombo for provisions and fuel, Worcester and her escorts tarried there from 7 to 9 August before pushing on toward the Malacca Strait.
		They then proceeded through the Bashi Channel to Buck-ner Bay, Okinawa, where they arrived on 19 August.
		En route, the American warships had been diverted through the Bashi Channel to be available to counter any invasion attempt by the communist Chinese of Formosa.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/w11/worcester-ii.htm (2508 words)

	6A.3 A Study on the Extratropical Transition of Typhoon Xangsane (2000) (2006 - 27Hurricanes) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		This paper examined the extratropical transition (ET) of Typhoon Xangsane (2000) when it moved north-northeastward along the east coast of Taiwan from the Bashi Channel to the East China Sea during October 31 - November 1.
		During this period, the orographic lifting of typhoon circulation brought a total of 1,054 mm rainfall to eastern Taiwan.
		Observations showed that Xangsane maintained a well-defined typhoon structure at 1200UTC 31 October, when it was in the Bashi Channel.
	ams.confex.com /ams/27Hurricanes/techprogram/paper_108154.htm (548 words)

	R1 COPY
		Sunk in channel midway between Hainan and Bashi Channel
		Sunk near 41° 49'N x 141° 11'E in channel between Hokkaido and Honshu
		Sunk in north end of Formosa Strait in the vicinity of Turnabout Island.
	www.subnet.com /WALL/r1.htm (1002 words)

	The Filipino American Story \| Journey Filipinas
		After a 12 hour jeepney ride on windy, dusty roads and a boat ride across the Bashi Channel, you, Marissa, and Jordan arrive in Batanes, the farthest and tiniest northern island province on Luzon.
		Here, expert boatmaster, Florentino Gallana welcomes you and invites you to learn how to build tatauas and fallowas, tub-shaped boats used by the local Ivatan tribe to go fishing.
		Boatmaster Florentino has continued this ancient tradition passed from generation to generation, father to son, since the 16th or 17th century.
	www.apa.si.edu /filamcentennial/filam_story/u1-part-02.html (84 words)

	During one of the patrols in the Bashi Channel Vance got caught between a stuck door and a hard place (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		During one of the patrols in the Bashi Channel Vance got caught between a stuck door and a hard place.
		It was in the Bashi Channel between Luson and Taiwan where this dangerous situation occurred.
		During a seamen’s time on a submarine they must serve a certain amount of time in the galley helping the cooks prepare the food and empty the trash.
	cstl-cla.semo.edu /us107/mainst/WWII/Majors/CloseCall.htm (405 words)

	The Auto Channel - Search Results
		Xinhua Far East Assigns BBB (pi) Rating to Shanghai Bashi Industrial (Group) Co Ltd
		Sunwin got an order for 1,000 Volvo buses from transport firm Shanghai Bashi Industrial Co <600741.SS> in August and Shanghai already has about 500 Volvo buses, he added.
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	www.theautochannel.com /search/search.html?words=Bashi (190 words)

	Batanes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Batanes Islands are separated from the Babuyan Islands of Cagayan Province by the Balintang Channel and from Taiwan by the Bashi Channel.
		The islands are situated between the vast expanse of the waters of Bashi Channel and Balintang Channel, where the Pacific Ocean, merges with the China Sea.
		The area is a sealane between the Philippines and Japan, China, Hongkong and Taiwan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Batanes (1514 words)

	In Asia, U.S. Must Stress Commitment to Freedom of the Seas
		First, the president will have noted that Japan's Ryukyu island chain, to which Okinawa belongs, extends roughly as close to Taiwan as Taiwan is from the Chinese mainland.
		He will also have seen that Taiwan is divided from the northern Philippines by the Bashi Channel, which is narrower than the Taiwan Strait.
		He will have recognized that geographically speaking, Taiwan is part of the Philippine archipelago rather than an offshore island of China.
	www.iht.com /articles/1996/04/20/edbow.t_0.php (769 words)

	Uyugan, Batanes! On the Web! Batanes
		It's the smallest province in the Philippines, both in land area and population, but it has one of the largest territorial waters in all of the Philippines.
		Over 15,000 people live in the province, which is bounded by Bashi Channel on the north, the Balintang Channel in the south, the Philippine Sea /Pacific Ocean on the east and the
		May average temperatures range from 30 degrees Celsius to 35 degrees Celsius.
	www.uyuganbatanes.com /batanes.html (1203 words)

	TRMM
		Up until this point, Mindulle had been moving mainly due west but now turned north taking it through the Babuyan and Batan islands north of the main island of Luzon.
		The storm increased its forward speed slowly and began to weaken as it passed through the Bashi Channel headed for Taiwan.
		Mindulle passed by the Hengchun Peninsula at the southern tip of Taiwan on the evening (local time) of the 30th of June before continuing up along the east coast of Taiwan.
	trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov /publications_dir/mindulle_june04.html (702 words)

	DD 698 Ault
		After the strike on Formosa on 9 January, the destroyer in company with Waldron (DD-699), Charles S. Sperry (DD-697), and John W. Weeks (DD-701), swept Bashi Channel ahead of Task Force (TF) 38, while proceeding into the South China Sea.
		Heavy weather as well as the proximity of the enemy created a tense atmosphere in which the carriers continued to mount strikes against the Camranh Bay area, Hong Kong, Hainan, Swatow, and the Formosa Strait.
		Returning to the Pacific through the Balintang Channel on the night of 20 January, the task force launched final strikes against Formosa and Okinawa before returning to Ulithi on 25 January.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/navy/dd-698.htm (1821 words)

	Sun Bin: The Myth of the strategic location of the Taiwan Strait
		The red route is the shortest path between Singapore and Yokohama.
		It passes the Luzon Strait (Babuyan Channel and Bashi Channel), not the Taiwan Strait
		But if the Allies made it across the Channel, Hitler always had the option of using the Luftwaffe.
	sun-bin.blogspot.com /2005/10/myth-of-strategic-location-of-taiwan.html (4599 words)

	Bishi Bashi Special for PS - Bishi Bashi Special PlayStation - Bishi Bashi Special PS Game (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
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	www.gamespot.com /ps/action/bishibashispecial/index.html (165 words)

	TRMM
		The system continued its movement to the north-northeast on the 8th bringing it closer to southern Taiwan.
		On the 9th, Typhoon Conson passed through the Bashi Channel just south of Taiwan before passing east of the island.
		The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite captured these images of Conson showing the storm's evolution from a tropical storm into a typhoon.
	trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov /publications_dir/conson_june04.html (665 words)

	Upward flow of North Pacific Deep Water in the northern South China Sea as deduced from the occurrence of drift ...
		Reflection seismic profiles show that drift sediments occur in the depth range of 1200–2800 m on the continental margin off Southeast China.
		These drift deposits were generated by upward flow near the Dongsha Islands of the North Pacific Deep Water (NPDW), which enters the South China Sea via the Bashi Channel (sill depth >2500 m).
		This flow results in deposition of slope sediments resuspended off East and South Taiwan on the slope southeast of the Dongsha Islands.
	www.agu.org /pubs/crossref/2005/2004GL021967.shtml (330 words)

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