Geomun-do (거문도, 巨文島 or 巨門島) (Port Hamilton) is a small group of islands of the southern coast of Korea, located approximately at 34°0′N 127°30′E. There are three principal islands, the two larger ones, Seo-do (서도) (西島) and Sunhodo or Dongdo (동도) (東島) forming an excellent harbour with the smaller island in the centre. It was this central island, Observation Island (거문도) or Godo (고도) (古島), which was the location of the British naval base from 1885 to 1887.

Geomun-do

Undoubtedly the establishment which has exercised and is exercising the most powerful educational, moral, and intellectual influence in Korea is the Pai Chai College ("Hall for the rearing of Useful Men"), so named by the King in 1887. This, which belongs to the American Methodist Episcopal Church, has had the advantage of the services of one Principal, the Rev. H.G. Appenzeller, for eleven years. It has a Chinese-En-mun department, for the teaching of the Chinese classics, Sheffield's Universal History, etc., a small theological department, and an English department, in which reading, grammar, composition, spelling, history, geography, arithmetic, and the elements of chemistry and natural philosophy are taught.

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