T'ai-tung
Alternative spelling of Taitung.
“The government-operated railway system, also developed originally by the Japanese, extends for 608 mi. (979 km.), chiefly on the western plain; most trackage is Cape-gauge (three feet six inches), but the 109-mi. (176 km.) east-coast line between T'ai-tung and Hua-lien is two feet six inches gauge.”
“Ying-ying answered apologetically, feeling that she had been reprimanded. “I got married last year in T’ai-tung.”
“In eastern Taiwan, three caves in Tʻai-tung county have recently produced stratified collections of unifacially flaked pebble choppers and flakes, dating from an unknown period down to about 3000 B.C.”
From Mandarin 臺東 /台東 (Táidōng) Wade–Giles romanization: Tʻai²-tung¹.
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