Gadeokdo
island of Busan, South Korea
Gadeokdo (Korean: 가덕도) is an island of Busan, South Korea. Gadeokdo is the largest island of Busan. It is connected to the mainland by the Gadeok Bridge and Nulcha Bridge. It is connected to Geojedo by the Busan-Geoje Fixed Link.
In April 2022, plans for a new airport were announced.
“Gadeokdo” enters the record as island of Busan, South Korea. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Gadeokdo, island and Busan can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 2, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q12612282. Authority coordinates are 35.030, 128.830. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2022.
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This entry incorporates text from “Gadeokdo” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.