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Keelung

Keelung, officially known as Keelung City (Chinese: 基隆市; also Jilong or Chilung), is a major port city situated in the northeastern part of Taiwan. It borders New Taipei with which it forms the Taipei–Keelung metropolitan area, along with Taipei itself. Nicknamed the Rainy Port for its frequent rain and maritime role, the city is Taiwan's second largest seaport (after Kaohsiung).

Name

According to early Chinese accounts, this northern coastal area was originally called Pak-kang (北港). By the early 20th century, the city was known to the Western world as Kelung, as well as the variants Kiloung, Kilang and Keelung. In his 1903 general history of Taiwan, US Consul to Formosa (1898–1904) James W. Davidson related that "Kelung" was among the few well-known names, thus warranting no alternate Japanese romanization.

However, the Taiwanese people have long called the city Kelang (Chinese: 雞籠; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Ke-lâng/Koe-lâng; literally: "rooster cage" or "hencoop"). It has been proposed that this name was derived from the local mountain that took the shape of a rooster cage. However, it is more probable that the name was derived from the first inhabitants of the region, as are the names of many other Taiwanese cities. In this case, the Ketagalan people were the first inhabitants, and early Han settlers probably approximated "Ketagalan" with "Ke-lâng" (Hokkien phonetics).

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Come and wind your belly
Come and wind it for me
Oh my Mother Anna knew
Oh my Mother Anna knew
If all the piggies don't don't whine
Then you keep it here with mine
Doko won the magic prize
Taken from Mother, a song song for Ella
Taken from Mother, a song song aglow
Cheeky boy sits on the side side forever
Cheeky boy who snuffles in the snow
Come and whip up for one, whip up for two
Oh our Mother Anna knew
Oh my Mother Anna knew
If all the doggies don't don't pine
Then you keep it here with mine
Doko won the magic prize
Taken from Mother, a song song for Ella
Taken from Mother, a song song aglow
Cheeky boy sits on the side side forever
All the guns, guns were never once Arthur's no
Come and veto the rose, veto for me
Oh my Mother Anna knew
If all the doggie don't don't pine
Then you keep them undermined
Keep them undermined
Doko won the magic prize




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Task force set up to probe Keelung plant soil situation

Taipei Times 21 Mar 2025
A task force has been set up to investigate alleged soil pollution at the Hsieh-ho Power Plant site in Keelung, the Ministry of Environment said on Thursday ... The Hsieh-ho Power Plant is pictured in Keelung on Thursday last week.
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Containership oil spill contaminates vessels at Keelung Port

SAFETY4SEA 18 Mar 2025
A containership docked at Keelung Port has spilled oil during refuelling, contaminating several nearby vessels on 16 March. The Port of Keelung Taiwan International Ports Corporation received an alert ...
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Multiple Vessels Fouled at Keelung, Taiwan During Bunkering Fuel Spill

The Maritime Executive 18 Mar 2025
Operations are resuming after a disruption at Taiwan’s northern port of Keelung due to an oil spill during a bunkering operation ... Keelung is also a popular cruise port and the cruise ship Norwegian Sky was impacted by the spill.
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