Quelpart

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Quelpart

  1. Obsolete form of Jeju, an island in South Korea
    • 1914 April, Malcolm P. Anderson, “Forty Days in Quelpart Island”, in Overland Monthly[1], volume LXIII, number 4, San Francisco, →OCLC, page 392, column 1:
      LATE in the afternoon of an August day, accompanied by my Japanese interpreter, Ichikawa, and my Korean servant, King, I boarded a little steamer in the harbor of Mokpo, bound for the remote island of Quelpart, which lies off the southern coast of Korea.