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srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/12px-Red_pog.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/16px-Red_pog.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="64" data-file-height="64" /></span></span></div><div class="pr" style="width:6em;left:5px"><div>Bombay Reef</div></div></div></div><div style="padding-top:0.2em"></div></div></div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Other names</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Chinese_language" title="Chinese language">Chinese</a>: <span lang="zh">浪花礁</span>; <a href="/wiki/Pinyin" title="Pinyin">pinyin</a>: <i><span lang="zh-Latn">Lànghuājiāo</span></i>; <a href="/wiki/Vietnamese_language" title="Vietnamese language">Vietnamese</a>: <i lang="vi">đá Bông Bay</i></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Geography</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Location</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/South_China_Sea" title="South China Sea">South China Sea</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Coordinates</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Bombay_Reef&params=16_02_41_N_112_31_06_E_type:isle"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">16°02′41″N</span> <span class="longitude">112°31′06″E</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">16.04472°N 112.51833°E</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">16.04472; 112.51833</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Archipelago</th><td class="infobox-data note">Paracel Islands</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Length</th><td class="infobox-data">10 mi (20 km)<sup id="cite_ref-NGA_Sailing_Directions_161-7_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NGA_Sailing_Directions_161-7-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Administration</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><div><b>People's Republic of China</b></div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Claimed by</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><div class="ib-islands-country2">Republic of China (Taiwan)</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><div class="ib-islands-country">Vietnam</div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Bombay Reef</b> (<a href="/wiki/Chinese_language" title="Chinese language">Chinese</a>: <span lang="zh">浪花礁</span>; <a href="/wiki/Pinyin" title="Pinyin">pinyin</a>: <i><span lang="zh-Latn">Lànghuājiāo</span></i>, <a href="/wiki/Vietnamese_language" title="Vietnamese language">Vietnamese</a>: <i lang="vi">đá Bông Bay</i>) is an <a href="/wiki/Atoll" title="Atoll">atoll</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Paracel_Islands" title="Paracel Islands">Paracel Islands</a>. In Chinese, the reef is alternatively known as "Pengbojiao" (<a href="/wiki/Chinese_language" title="Chinese language">Chinese</a>: <span lang="zh">蓬勃礁</span>), or "Qilianyu(七连屿)" (literally "7 key lago") along with six other islands close by. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Geography">Geography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bombay_Reef&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Geography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/National_Geospatial-Intelligence_Agency" title="National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency">National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Sailing_Directions" title="Sailing Directions">Sailing Directions</a></i> describes Bombay Reef as "the southeasternmost known danger of the Paracel Islands, a steep-to reef 10 miles long E and W that surrounds a rock-strewn lagoon."<sup id="cite_ref-NGA_Sailing_Directions_161-7_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NGA_Sailing_Directions_161-7-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A lighthouse is located on the south-west end of the reef.<sup id="cite_ref-NGA_Sailing_Directions_161-7_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NGA_Sailing_Directions_161-7-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was built by the French in 1980.<sup id="cite_ref-Rowlett_Lighthouse_Directory_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rowlett_Lighthouse_Directory-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:BombayReef.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/BombayReef.jpg/220px-BombayReef.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/BombayReef.jpg/330px-BombayReef.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/BombayReef.jpg/440px-BombayReef.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3032" data-file-height="2008" /></a><figcaption>Bombay Reef (Paracel islands) as viewed from the <a href="/wiki/International_Space_Station" title="International Space Station">International Space Station</a></figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bombay_Reef&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the early hours of 20 December 1946, en route from Hong Kong to Singapore for <a href="/wiki/Ship_decommissioning" class="mw-redirect" title="Ship decommissioning">decommissioning</a>, HMS <i>Aire</i> <a href="/wiki/Ship_grounding" title="Ship grounding">ran aground</a> on Bombay Reef.<sup id="cite_ref-naval-history.net_AIRE_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-naval-history.net_AIRE-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She was spotted by chance, three days later, by the passing <a href="/wiki/HMS_Bonaventure_(F139)" title="HMS Bonaventure (F139)">HMS <i>Bonaventure</i></a> and the 85 crew, amongst them the ship's dog, were rescued with no serious casualties.<sup id="cite_ref-RNRA_Aire_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RNRA_Aire-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As a <a href="/wiki/River-class_frigate" title="River-class frigate">River-class</a> <a href="/wiki/Frigate" title="Frigate">frigate</a>, HMS <i>Aire</i> was <a href="/wiki/Sister_ship" title="Sister ship">sister ship</a> to the famous <a href="/wiki/Superyacht" title="Superyacht">superyacht</a> <a href="/wiki/Christina_O" title="Christina O"><i>Christina O</i></a>. </p><p>In early May 1967 the 87-foot (27 m)<sup id="cite_ref-All_Hands-1967-8_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-All_Hands-1967-8-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> steel sailing schooner <i>Dante Deo</i>, with six men and a six-year-old boy on board,<sup id="cite_ref-LJW_1967-05-05_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LJW_1967-05-05-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was wrecked on Bombay Reef.<sup id="cite_ref-OCC_FlyingFish_2014-1_p_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-OCC_FlyingFish_2014-1_p-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The crew were rescued on 5 May 1967 by an <a href="/wiki/Amphibious_aircraft" title="Amphibious aircraft">amphibious aircraft</a> operated by the <a href="/wiki/37th_Aerospace_Rescue_and_Recovery_Squadron" class="mw-redirect" title="37th Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadron">37th Air Rescue Squadron</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-LJW_1967-05-05_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LJW_1967-05-05-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Bombay Reef is the site of numerous other <a href="/wiki/Shipwreck" title="Shipwreck">shipwrecks</a>, at least one of which is visible above water and on <a href="/wiki/Radar" title="Radar">radar</a> from 15 miles away.<sup id="cite_ref-NGA_Sailing_Directions_161-7_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NGA_Sailing_Directions_161-7-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Territorial_claims">Territorial claims</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bombay_Reef&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Territorial claims"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Nine-dash_line" title="Nine-dash line">Nine-dash line</a> and <a href="/wiki/Territorial_disputes_in_the_South_China_Sea" title="Territorial disputes in the South China Sea">Territorial disputes in the South China Sea</a></div> <p>Lacking a native population, ownership of the Paracel Islands has been disputed since the early 20th century. In the aftermath of the <a href="/wiki/First_Indochina_War" title="First Indochina War">First Indochina War</a> until 1974 Vietnam occupied Pattle Island, approximately 60 nautical miles (110 km) away. Control has been enforced by the People's Republic of China since the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Paracel_Islands" title="Battle of the Paracel Islands">Battle of the Paracel Islands</a>. </p><p>Bombay Reef is administered and governed by the <a href="/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_China" class="mw-redirect" title="People's Republic of China">People's Republic of China</a> and patrolled by the Chinese border police. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bombay_Reef&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lincoln_Island,_Paracel_Islands&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lincoln Island, Paracel Islands (page does not exist)">Lincoln Island</a> (东岛/đảo Linh Côn)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Middle_Island,_Paracel_Islands&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Middle Island, Paracel Islands (page does not exist)">Middle Island</a> (中岛/đảo Trung)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=North_Island,_Paracel_Islands&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="North Island, Paracel Islands (page does not exist)">North Island</a> (北礁/đảo Bắc)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Reef,_Paracel_Islands" class="mw-redirect" title="North Reef, Paracel Islands">North Reef</a> (北岛/đá Bắc)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rocky_Island,_South_China_Sea" title="Rocky Island, South China Sea">Rocky Island</a> (石岛/đảo Đá)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=South_Island,_Paracel_Islands&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="South Island, Paracel Islands (page does not exist)">South Island</a> (南岛/đảo Nam)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tree_Island,_South_China_Sea" title="Tree Island, South China Sea">Tree Island</a> (赵述岛/đảo Cây)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Triton_Island" title="Triton 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title="Cornwallis South Reef">Cornwallis South Reef</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dallas_Reef" title="Dallas Reef">Dallas Reef</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erica_Reef" title="Erica Reef">Erica Reef</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Investigator_Shoal" title="Investigator Shoal">Investigator Shoal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mariveles_Reef" title="Mariveles Reef">Mariveles Reef</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">West</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/London_Reefs" title="London Reefs">London Reefs</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Central_London_Reef" title="Central London Reef">Central London Reef</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cuarteron_Reef" title="Cuarteron Reef">Cuarteron Reef</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_London_Reef" title="East London Reef">East London Reef</a></li> <li><a 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skirmish</a> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scarborough_Shoal_standoff" title="Scarborough Shoal standoff">Scarborough Shoal standoff</a> (2012)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Philippine_Sea" title="West Philippine Sea">Designation of the West Philippine Sea</a> (2012)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hai_Yang_Shi_You_981_standoff" title="Hai Yang Shi You 981 standoff">Hai Yang Shi You 981 standoff</a> (2014)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Transport</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Ships <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Coconut_Princess" title="Coconut Princess">Coconut Princess</a></i></li></ul></li> <li>Airports <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dongsha_Airport" title="Dongsha Airport">Pratas Is</a></li> <li>Paracel Islands Airports <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sansha_Yongxing_Airport" title="Sansha Yongxing Airport">Woody Is</a></li></ul></li> <li><a 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