Hsia-lu

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English

Map including HSIA-LU (AMS, 1961)

Etymology

From Mandarin 下陸下陆 (Xiàlù), Wade–Giles romanization: Hsia⁴-lu⁴.

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Hsia-lu

  1. Alternative form of Xialu
    • 1921, F. R. Tegengren, The Iron Ores and Iron Industry of China (Memiors of the Geological Survey of China)‎, Peking, →OCLC, page 183:
      German engineers were employed to build the railway, to erect a workshop at Hsia-Lu (下陸) and to connect the ore hill by an incline with the terminus of the railway.
      When, in the 22nd year of Kuang Hsü (1896), the Hanyang Irong Works were transferred []
    • 1952 May, Joseph F. Harrington, Benjamin M. Page, Sources of Iron Ore in Asia (Mineral Trade Notes)‎, number 154, Washington, D.C.: Bureau of Mines, →OCLC, page 126:
      Chi-chia-lo iron mines 30°6'N latitude and 114°45'E longitude are 70 kilometers southeast of Hankow on the south side of the Yangtze River in E-chen Hsien. They are 14 kilometers from Chin-niu village and can be reached by road from Hsia-lu station on the Ta-yeh railroad, a distance of 43 kilometers.

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