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Yuguang Island (魚光島) is a rarity among islets. It wasn’t formed by volcanic action, by the natural accumulation of sediment or by humans dumping rocks. Like Kaohsiung’s Cijin (旗津), it was a peninsula until the authorities decided, for the sake of economic development, to sever it from “mainland” Taiwan.
Back in the 17th century, at least 11 barrier islands made of mud and grit flushed out from inland Taiwan dotted the coast near Tainan. Likening them to humpbacked sea creatures, early Han settlers dubbed them kunshen (鯤鯓), and numbered them from north to south.
Due to the huge amount of sediment washed
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2021/03/01 17:26 (CNA photo) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) Seven graduating students from an elementary school in central Taiwan have completed a three-day, two-night graduation trip they planned themselves and paid for with money they earned. They are the graduating class at Wunsiang Elementary School in Changhua County’s Huatan Township, which has a total of 86 students. School Principal Wu Shih-hung (吳世宏) told CNA in an interview that since he became principal, he has asked graduating students to plan their own graduation trips and neither accept money from their parents nor hire a tour bus. Last year’s graduating class missed the opportunity due to the pandemic, and this year’s graduating students were really looking forward to the trip, Wu said.