Quelpaert

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

A name applied by Dutch sailor Hendrick Hamel and used in Europe.

Proper noun

Quelpaert

  1. (obsolete) Jeju, an island of South Korea.
    • c. 1653, The Faber Book of Exploration‎[1], Faber and Faber, published 2002, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 44:
      A Dutch Vessel, in the year 1653, being bound from Batavia to Japan, after suffering a most violent Storm of several days continuance, springing a Leak so wide that there was no means to drain the Water that rush’d into the Hold, several that happen’d to be then under Deck were drowned before they could get up, and each Man betaking himself to his shifts, 36 (of 64 that they were in all) got ashore upon the Island of Quelpaert, and those too severely bruised and hurt in saving themselves from the terrible Fate of their more unfortunate Companions.
    • 1885, William Elliot Griffis, “The Kind Corean Governor”, in Corea, Without and Within: Chapters on Corean History, Manners and Religion with Hendrick Hamel's Narrative of Captivity and Travels in Corea, Annotated‎[2], 2nd edition, Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication, →OCLC, page 48:
      At night they gave us more rice to eat ; and our master, having made an observation, found we were in the island of Quelpaert, which is thirty-three degrees thirty-two minutes of latitude.
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