# Antique Taiwan Map **URL:** \ **Category:** Where Can I Find...?\ **Created:** [December 17, 2006, 3:13am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/antique-taiwan-map/34342 "2006-12-17T03:13:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 15
**Author:** ![hansioux](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/hansioux/32/253648_2.png) [@hansioux](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/hansioux)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2026, 4:55pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/antique-taiwan-map/34342/15 "2026-07-22T16:55:05Z")
> [@cdn1234](#): > > Either way, very cool map. > > ![Screenshot_20260723-003350](https://forumosauploads-12829.kxcdn.com/original/4X/0/d/d/0dd362720b9c6eb83a5e8e39e503d7940a1391f7.jpeg) > > Presumably the little island here is Taiwan? with 北港 and 加里（a character made up of 本 and 木, no idea what that is). Shows how much they were interested in Taiwan in those times lol. Cool map indeed. One of the earliest names of Taiwan other than Formosa was Pacan (recorded by the Spanish) or Packan (recorded by the Dutch), which was written as 北港 in Hanji. For a while it was used to refer to the entire island. Most people just write the second location as 加里林. There is debate on where it is. It might be a cognate to these places: > [@Origin of Taiwanese place names](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/origin-of-taiwanese-place-names/87521/40): > > So I was looking up some place name that starts with ka- and ends with -an which seems to be very common, and that reminded me of this old post, where I proposed the origin of Hemei 和美 was Kalisian. I decided to see if I could find an entry of ka-lisi-an and figure out what it means. Turns out, I was wrong, instead of ka- + -an, the origin instead was qali- + -an. The qali- initial is reserved for things that are holy, or connected to the spiritual world. The examples are rainbow \*qali-waRw… qali- is the Austronesian prefix for anything sacred or spirit-related. --- _[View the full topic](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/antique-taiwan-map/34342)._