island of Hainan and at Daya Bay). Climate The peninsula lies in tropical South China. The region is under the influence of continental northeastern monsoons and maritime southeastern and southwestern monsoons. Typhoons occasionally occur, both from the Pacific Ocean and the South China Sea. Annual precipitation is . Towns Kouang Tchéou Wan, former French colony on the north-eastern coast of the peninsula Zhanjiang, a port city on the north-eastern coast See also Stone dogs in the Leizhou Peninsula Volcanoes of Leizhou at the German Wikipedia References External links Stone dogs in Leizhou Peninsula A map of the peninsula's volcanic fields from the Zhanjiang municipal website Peninsulas of China Volcanoes of China Landforms of Guangdong Gulf of Tonkin