| This fresh-water lake was in the center of the southern end of the
peninsula. We called it "Tiger Lake" (I have no idea why) and it is too
small to have a name even on the large-scale charts. It was located right at the
western base of Núi Ao Ho, the 1509 foot peak on the Cam Ranh peninsula. The
mountain can be seen rising in the background. I have been informed that the name of this
lake is shown as Lac Ao Ho. This information is shown on Sheet 6846
IV, "Dinh Khanh Cam",AMS-Series L701 Indochina 1:50,000, prepared 1953, printed
1954. Many thanks to Tom Beauvais for providing this information. He also
adds: "Some Vietnamese dictionaries give 'tiger' as a meaning for the word
'Ho'. Current guide books for Vietnam state that Khanh Hoa province, where Cam Ranh
Bay is located, had a reputation in earlier years for good tiger hunting". |
