Definition of "Namoa"

Leaving Namoa, and sailing up the coast towards Amoy, the stranger is continually struck with the barren rocky nature of the coast, and in some parts has a view of hills of sand, the particles of which, when a hurricane blows, mix with the wind, and whiten the ropes of vessels and render it most unpleasant to be in the vicinity.

1847, Robert Fortune, Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China: Including a Visit to the Tea, Silk, and Cotton Countries; with an Account of the Agriculture and Horticulture of the Chinese, New Plants, Etc.‎, 2nd edition, John Murray, Albemarle Street, pages 23–24

In the latter year, the viceroy issued a proclamation denouncing opium smoking, and ordering the rigorous enforcement of the laws; from now on ships began to trade in opium along the coast to the east and north. Soon storeships were stationed at Namoa, on the border between Kwangtung and Fukien, and elsewhere farther north, to serve as depots of supplies for the brigs and schooners which formed the connecting link with Lintin.

1931, Hosea Ballou Morse, Harley Farnsworth MacNair, Far Eastern International Relations‎, Houghton Mifflin Company, page 97

His next report to Peking arrived on July 8th and seems to have been sent on June 13th. It concerned a fresh outbreak of smuggling at Namoa, on the northern borders of Kwangtung, and makes no reference to any general plan for stamping out the opium trade in the future.

1958, Arthur Waley, The Opium War through Chinese Eyes‎, London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., published 1973, page 47

Radio Peking said one plane intruded over territorial waters east of Namoa Island and another near Yunghsing Is­land, both off the coast of the southern province of Kwangtung.

1968 February 28, “Peking Accuses U.S. Of Intruding”, in The Lincoln Star‎, volume 66, number 129, Lincoln, Nebraska, sourced from Tokyo (AP), page 24, column 4

Hazards and oddities of the opium traffic appear in a report of the first confrontation with Chinese by the people of the Rose, a 150-ton clipper brigantine designed by Joe Lee of Boston to Forbes's order, and sent out in 1836 by way of the Strait of Magellan and the Sandwich Islands. She picked up 300 chests of opium, valued at $1,000 apiece, from a receiving ship below Canton and sailed three days up the coast to Namoa Island, where she encountered the barge of a Chinese commodore. The master of the Rose explained that contrary winds had driven him off course, an explanation clearly absurd in the favorable monsoon.

1974, Alexander Laing, edited by Joseph J. Thorndike, The American Heritage History of Seafaring America‎, New York: American Heritage Publishing Company, Inc., page 261

In 1563, pirates expelled from their base on Namoa Island on the Guangdong border, took refuge on Taiwan, which was to remain an important pirate lair until the arrival of the Dutch, followed by Chinese and then Manchu forces in the seventeenth century.

1991, Simon Long, Taiwan: China's Last Frontier‎, New York: St. Martin's Press, page 6