Qualla: Bach Long Vi Island https://qualla.com/bach-long-vi-island en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:37 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Bach Long Vi Island https://qualla.com/bach-long-vi-island Bach Long Vi Island: Introduction https://qualla.com/bach-long-vi-island/ Before the 20th century, Vietnamese fishermen called the island Vo Thuy - 'no water.' The name was accurate and absolute. There was no freshwater spring, no reliable well, nothing to sustain permanent human life on this low scrap of sedimentary rock sitting almost exactly halfway between Haiphong and Hainan in the Gulf of Tonkin. Fishermen sheltered behind it during monsoons and moved on. The Chinese knew it as Nightingale Island. Neither name suggested anyone would fight over it. But geography has a way of creating value where none seems to exist, and an island positioned precisely between two nations becomes, by that positioning alone, enormously important.

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]]> Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/7/s/d/bach-long-vi-island-wp/w7sd-bach-long-vi-island-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Bach Long Vi Island: The Dragon's Tail https://qualla.com/bach-long-vi-island/ In Vietnamese, Bach Long Vi means 'Tail of the White Dragon,' a name borrowed from a peninsula in what is now Fangchenggang, Guangxi, China. The connection traces to the 1887 French-Qing Convention, which drew a line through the Gulf of Tonkin and placed the island on the Vietnam...

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