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NEWS: New Name for Malham Cove - in Chinese

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 UKC News 18 Feb 2015
Malham Cove, 4 kbMalham Cove – one of the most famous features of the Yorkshire Dales National Park – now has a new, distinctly Oriental image. The 70 metre (230ft) high, gently curving cliff of white limestone is among seven Yorkshire and 101 British points of interest that have been given a new name by Chinese people in national tourism agency VisitBritain's new 'GREAT names for GREAT Britain' campaign.

Read more at http://www.ukclimbing.com/news/item.php?id=69517
 masa-alpin 18 Feb 2015
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It (Malham Cove in Simplified Chinese) is "白崖飞泉", apparently:
http://www.greatnames.visitbritain.com/zh-hans
 masa-alpin 18 Feb 2015
Oh, dear, the UKC forum can't display the UTF-8 characters codes? (That is a bit outdated!?)
If you click on the link in my post above and search for the term "Malham Cove", you can see the Chinese characters for it. Or, you can convert those character codes (though I haven't checked it).
In reply to UKC News:

Quite a few climbing areas included it would seem!
 Jon Read 18 Feb 2015
In reply to masa-alpin:

I particularly like the conversion for Llanfair-pwllgwyn-gyllgo-gery-chwyrn-drobwll-llanty-silio-gogo-goch.
abseil 18 Feb 2015
In reply to UKC News:

RIGHT, that's IT, I'm renaming some Chinese places:

BEIJING - Smog Bucket
SHENZHEN - Alcatraz of the East
GUANGZHOU - Watch-Your-Wallet
znight 18 Feb 2015
In reply to UKC News:

Attract Chinese tourists??!! They should open an outlet there and job done.
 lewiz 18 Feb 2015
In reply to abseil:

I can't tell how likes work on the forum, but I like this!

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