The Shengsi Islands or Archipelago () are part of the
Zhoushan Archipelago
Zhoushan is an urbanized archipelago with the administrative status of a prefecture-level city in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang. It consists of an archipelago of islands at the southern mouth of Hangzhou Bay off the mainland c ...
and located south of the mouth of the
Yangtze
The Yangtze or Yangzi ( or ) is the longest river in Eurasia and the third-longest in the world. It rises at Jari Hill in the Tanggula Mountains of the Tibetan Plateau and flows including Dam Qu River the longest source of the Yangtze, i ...
(east of
Hangzhou Bay). They comprise 394 islands, each with an area larger than , but of which just 18 are inhabitable. The largest island is
Sijiao Island with an area of .
The islands are administered by
Shengsi County of
Zhoushan City. The islands have a subtropical climate, with yearly average temperature of . The area is also notable as tourist destination and a fishery that attracts more than 100,000 fishermen every winter.
[Shanghai Star, 2001-04-26]
See also
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Houtouwan
Houtouwan () is an abandoned fishing village and tourist attraction on the northern side of Shengshan Island (), one of the Shengsi Islands, a chain of nearly 400 islands located east of Shanghai, China
China, officially the People's ...
, abandoned village on Shengshan Island, now a tourist attraction
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Majishan, one of the Shengsi Islands
References
External links
Shanghai Star, 2001-04-26
Zhoushan
Tourist attractions in Zhejiang
Islands of the East China Sea
Archipelagoes of China
Archipelagoes of the Pacific Ocean
Shengsi Islands
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