18至19世纪初西人的南海测绘与黄岩岛地名演变

Westerners’ Survey in South China Sea and the Evolution of Names of Scarborough Shoal

18世纪很长一段时间里,西人并未认识到黄岩岛的存在,西文地图中仅在距离吕宋海岸非常近的地方标出了三个浅滩,它们与黄岩岛毫无关系。直到1771年,达尔林普尔经过考证,才发现黄岩岛的存在,并赋予它Scarborough Shoal的地名,此后的地图上出现黄岩岛Scarborough与吕宋近海三浅滩并立的局面。18世纪末至19世纪初,西人对吕宋岛海岸以西展开测绘,发现这里并不存在三个浅滩,于是这些浅滩从地图上消失,而原本属于浅滩地名的Marsingola或South Maroona被移植到了黄岩岛。因此,菲律宾方面的证据并不能成立。

In the 18 th century, for a long time westerners did not recognize the existence of the Scarborough Shoal. Therefore,maps producted by western countries,only marked three shoals very close to the Luzon coast, which have no relationship with the Scarborough Shoal. In 1771,Alexander Dalrymple through textual research,finally found the Scarborough Shoal' s existence,and gave it the name of "Scarborough Shoal". In the late 18 th and early 19 th century,westerners surveyed the west coast of Luzon,found that the three shoals did not exist,so the three shoals disappeared from maps,and the names of Marsingola or South Maroona,which used to refer to two of the three shoals,were shifted to Scarborough Shoal. Therefore,the evidence for the Philippines is untenable.