Shi_Islet

Shi Islet

Shi Islet

Islet west of Taiwan.

24.4557079°N 118.2269356°E / 24.4557079; 118.2269356

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Shi Islet
Shi Islet
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Shi Islet[4][5][6] (Chinese: 獅嶼; pinyin: Shī Yǔ; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sai-sū; lit. 'Lion Islet'; also Shi Yu,[7][8] Shih Yü,[9] Shiyu,[2][10] Shiyu Islet[2] and Lion Islet[10][11]) is an islet located northwest of Lesser Kinmen (Lieyu) in Lieyu Township, Kinmen County (Quemoy), Fujian Province, Republic of China (Taiwan).[2][10][11][12][13] Military personnel are stationed on Shi Islet.[2][3]

The islet was originally named Shu Islet (鼠嶼; Shǔ Yǔ; 'rat islet').[14] The current name, given by Chiang Ching-kuo during his visits to military bases in Kinmen, was adopted in 1960.

History

After 0:00 AM on July 7, 1953, the People's Liberation Army 31st Army 92nd Division landed on Shi Islet to start an attack on ROC troops, leading to 3 killed and 4 captured.[15]

At around 4 PM on August 19, 2016, a 23 year old Chinese man landed on Shi Islet after rowing from Xiamen Island (Amoy) on a piece of polystyrene and was immediately arrested by the Shi Islet defense forces.[7][16][17]

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.[18][19]

Shiyu slaughter

In January 1985, a Chinese sampan carrying eight fisherman floated onshore the islet after its engine broke down and identified themself as civilians in emergency communication. Kinmen Defense Command ordered the stationed platoon to kill them regardless. Six died under crossfire; two escaped to a rock cave and kneeled down begging for mercy, then were pushed off the rock cliff to fall to death under the KDC's second urgent order.[20][21]

Searching the sampan later only found a fisher's letter draft to his mother about having collected sufficient yarn to knit a sweater for her to pass the winter. The letter was submitted, but the case was covered with the corpses hidden under the beach west of the harbor. Then the soldiers were warned not to leak any information and transferred to another post on Kinmen main island.[20][21]

The case was hidden for 37 years until being exposed by another massacre's re-investigation in 2022[22]

Geography

Shi Islet is located 1 km (0.62 mi) from Lesser Kinmen Island (Lieyu) and 4 km (2.5 mi) from Xiamen Island (Amoy), Fujian, China (PRC).[2][23]

The islet appeared in the 2010 Japanese movie Liar Game: The Final Stage.[2]

  • Map including Shi Islet (unlabelled islet between Lieyu (Lesser Kinmen) and Xiamen Island (Amoy)) (AMS, 1954)
  • Shi Islet (background) and Anti-landing Spikes on Lesser Kinmen's Shanglin Coast (foreground)

See also

References

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    行政面積. Civil Affairs Department, Kinmen County Government (in Chinese (Taiwan)). 29 January 2019. Retrieved 9 August 2019. 外圍 島嶼 面積單位： (平方公里）{...} 獅嶼 0.0070
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    Huang Tzu-ti (15 October 2018). "A look at Taiwan's smallest military post". Taiwan News (in Chinese (Taiwan)). Retrieved 9 August 2019. Shiyu is a tiny islet of Kinmen less than 1 square kilometer in size{...}Among the many islets that make up Kinmen is Taiwan's tiniest military post, Shiyu Islet (獅嶼), which is a mere 0.007 square kilometers in size.
    Located in Jinxia Water Tunnel (金廈水道) northwest of Kinmen, the islet sits 1 km from Leiyu, better known as Lesser Kinmen (小金門), and 4 km from the southeast Chinese city of Xiamen.
    Shiyu Islet is virtually a rock, with a 200 ping surface area. It is the smallest Taiwanese island with stationed military personnel. Shiyu appeared in the 2010 Japanese film "Liar Game: The Final Stage" due to its special location. The movie, a continuation of a popular television drama, portrays Shiyu as a clandestine military base.
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    Liu I 劉亦 (1 April 2020). 劉亦／台灣不是一個國家？從金馬割棄論到「台灣群島」共同體. 聯合新聞網 (in Chinese (Taiwan)). Retrieved 10 September 2020. 獅嶼位於金門西北方的金廈水道，面積為0.007平方公里，目前有國軍駐守。
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    "Geographic environment". Kinmen National Park. Archived from the original on 28 October 2018. Retrieved 27 July 2019. The 12 islands and islets comprising {...} Shi islet {...}
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    Ruan Zhenyan; Dong Lin (2007). "Review of Xiamen-Kinmen Sea Area Management Seminar". Hein Online. pp. 445–446. Retrieved 8 August 2019. The control, prohibition and restriction on the controlled zones of the fortresses such as Houyu Islet, Caoyu Islet, Beiding Island, Dongding Island, Dadan Island, Er'dan [sic] Island, Menghu Islet, Fuxing Islet and Shi Islet, shall be conducted in accordance with Vital Area Regulations.
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    "Maogong Rock Seashore Recreation Area". Lieyu Township Village Administration, Kinmen County. 16 January 2020. Retrieved 10 September 2020. Near the beach by the footpath is an observation deck providing a good view of Xiamen city and Shi islet.
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    Amy Huang; Elaine Hou (20 August 2016). "Chinese man arrested for attempting to enter Kinmen illegally". Taiwan News. Retrieved 11 September 2020. The 23-year-old man, surnamed Liu, was spotted sitting on a chunk of polystyrene and paddling toward Shi Yu, an islet west of the main island of Kinmen Friday afternoon, the Kinmen coast guard said Saturday.
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    Shi Yu (Approved - N) at GEOnet Names Server, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
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    Shih Yü (Variant - V) at GEOnet Names Server, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
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    "China tells Taiwan to stop all mainland spying and sabotage". Reuters. 16 September 2018. Retrieved 10 September 2020. Shiyu, or Lion Islet, which is part of Kinmen county, one of Taiwan's offshore islands, is seen in front of China's Xiamen, on Lieyu island, Kinmen county, Taiwan August 20, 2018.[dead link]
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    Alan Taylor (8 October 2015). "Taiwan's Kinmen Islands, Only a Few Miles From Mainland China". The Atlantic. Retrieved 9 August 2019. Shiyu, or Lion Islet, part of Kinmen County, one of Taiwan's offshore islands, seen in front of Xiamen, China, on September 8, 2015. Just off Kinmen's shores, glass-walled high-rises wink from the booming mainland port of Xiamen in one of China's most prosperous provinces.
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    金門縣土地段名代碼表 (in Chinese (Taiwan)). Department of Land Administration. 5 September 2018. Retrieved 9 August 2019. 地政事務所名稱(代碼) 金門(WA) 鄉鎮市區名稱(代碼) 烈嶼鄉(05){...}段 小段 代碼 備註{...}獅嶼 0255
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    鄭仲嵐 (7 August 2018). 金門福建兩地通水：賦予台海政局的三個對比. BBC (in Traditional Chinese). Retrieved 10 September 2020. 台灣金門離島小島——獅嶼。島上插有中華民國青天白日旗，對面高樓大廈是福建廈門市（2018年4月20日資料照片）。
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    Lin Chih-Pin (林志斌); Hung Ching-Chang (洪清漳) (2018). 烈嶼西方甲傳奇:佛祖上帝公庇佑的子民. 金门县文化局. p. 17. ISBN 978-986-05-8121-8.
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