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Subject: RE:      : Delisle Island,. Thailand
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 17:44:01 -0000
From: Francis Herbert <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum
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CC: obiwon five <[log in to unmask]>

Hi, Obiwon5!

Merely an (admittedly) preliminary search produces
- as suspected - two
Delisle Islands, each with references to different
Thai names at two
different locations:-

1) Koh Piam : N 9 degrees 45 minutes/E 98 degrees
25 minutes

2) Goh Piam: N 9 degrees 40 minutes/E 98 degrees
20 minutes

[source:] Gazetteer to maps of Thailand / compiled
under the supervision
of the United States Board on Geographic Names. -
December 1944 [ed.]. -
Washington DC : Army Map Service, War Department
[, 1944?]. - xiv,972p.,
[4] leaves (fold.) of plates : col. maps ; 23 cm

Can you/anyone else take it from here, or shoud I
check AMS maps and/or
US/British nautical charts etc.?

Francis Herbert
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Subject: : Delisle Island,. Thailand


-------- Original Message --------
Subject:        Delisle Island,. Thailand
Date:   Wed, 21 Feb 2007 04:40:09 +0000
From:   obiwon five <[log in to unmask]>
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Hi all,

I am having difficulty identifying a Thai island
on the Anadaman Sea
coast where the British set up a radio post in
WW1. In the early 1900s
it was called Delisle island, and is one of the
islands just south of
Burma's Mergui archipelago. There's not a lot of
online references, and
those that claim to locate it give me two
different islands: Ko Phayam
NW of Kapoe in Ranong province, and the tiny Ko
Khangkhao, W of Kapoe.
Delisle may be either of these, or even another
one entirely.

Can someone with older (or even current?) nautical
charts of this area
identify it officially? I'd love a lat/long, and
also it's current
(Thai) name if possible.


Thank you

Brendan Whyte
THAILAND

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