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The article reports on the Sakhalin Island which was inhabited in the Neolithic Stone Age by the indigenous people Ainu and Nivkh. In a colonization attempt in 1679, a Japanese settlement in the southern end of Sakhalin of Ootomari was established. People from Japan and Russia attempted to colonize the island as the Chinese governments did not have military presence on the island. Liaotung Peninsula was controlled by Japan as a result of the Treaty of Portsmouth, Japan. The city of Karafuto played a major part in the history of the development of the coordinate system of the Sakhalin Island.

Presents geospatial information on China. Historical background; Landforms; Geographical information.

Describes the triangulation stations in Hong Kong. Commonly used aphylactic projections; Adoption of a geodetic datum called Hong Kong 1980; Application of Global Positioning System technique for fixing positions of survey control points.

The article presents information on the Federal Republic of Somalia. It is located in the horn of Africa, adjacent to the Arabian Peninsula. The ancient Egyptians spoke of it as God's Land, or the Land of Punt. Chinese merchants often visited the Somali coast in the tenth and fourteenth centuries, and came back to China with giraffes, leopards, and tortoises to add color and diversity to the imperial menagerie.