Menghu Islet () (Tiger Island
) is an islet located southwest of Lesser Kinmen (Lieyu) in
Lieyu Township
Lieyu Township (Liehyu) (; pinyin: ''Lièyǔ Xiāng''; Hokkien Pe̍h-ōe-jī, POJ: ''Lia̍t-sū-hiong'') is a Township (Taiwan), rural township in Kinmen, Kinmen County (Quemoy), Fujian Province, Republic of China, Fujian Province, Taiwan, Republi ...
,
Kinmen County
Kinmen, alternatively known as Quemoy, is a group of islands governed as a county by the Republic of China (Taiwan), only east from the city of Xiamen in Fujian, located at the southeastern coast of the People's Republic of China, from which ...
(Quemoy),
Fujian Province, Republic of China
Fuchien ( ), formerly romanized as Fukien, is a ''de jure'' administrative division of Taiwan (ROC), whose constitution retains provinces as a titular division with no practical administrative function.
It includes three small archipe ...
(Taiwan). The islet was originally named Hu-tzu Hsü
[, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency] (Hu-tzu Hsu) (
).
History
In 1965, the island was given its present name.
In 2006, a Chinese fishing ship carrying 198
Chinese box turtle
The Chinese box turtle (), also known as the yellow-margined box turtle, or golden-headed turtle, is a species of Asian box turtle. Taxonomy (biology), Taxonomically, it is called ''Cuora flavomarginata''.
Anatomy
''C. flavomarginata'' has a hi ...
s for illicit sale in Fujian was caught in the waters adjacent to Menghu Islet.
On November 3, 2017, a fishing ship with five crew members from
Longhai City,
Zhangzhou
Zhangzhou (, ) is a prefecture-level city in Fujian Province, China. The prefecture around the city proper comprises the southeast corner of the province, facing the Taiwan Strait and (with Quanzhou) surrounding the prefecture of Xiamen.
Nam ...
,
Fujian
Fujian is a provinces of China, province in East China, southeastern China. Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, Guangdong to the south, and the Taiwan Strait to the east. Its capital is Fuzhou and its largest prefe ...
,
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...
was caught in the waters adjacent to Menghu Islet.
On July 23, 2019,
Ho Cheng (
賀政), the new leader of the ROC Army Kinmen Defense Command (
陸軍金門防衛指揮部), visited the soldiers on
Shi Islet and Menghu Islet.
After 10 PM on August 14, 2019, two members of the Kinmen branch of the
Coast Guard Administration (Taiwan)
The Coast Guard Administration of the Ocean Affairs Council (CGA), also operating as the ROC Coast Guard, is charged with maintaining law and order; protecting the resources of the territorial waters of the Republic of China (Taiwan), which surr ...
were severely injured when they jumped from their ship onto a fishing ship from Mainland China which had been caught fishing in the waters around Menghu Islet.
Geography
Menghu Islet is southwest of Lesser Kinmen (Lieyu).
See also
*
List of islands of Taiwan
The islands comprising the Taiwan Area under the jurisdiction of the Taiwan, Republic of China (ROC) are classified into various island groups. The geography of Taiwan, island of Taiwan, also known as Formosa, is the largest island and the main ...
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Tiger in Chinese culture
References
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Islands of Fujian, Republic of China
Landforms of Kinmen County
Lieyu Township