Liang Island


Liang Island is an island located in the East China Sea in Beigan Township, Lienchiang County, Fujian Province, Republic of China. The island is closed to the public. The island is located from both Beigan Island and Dongyin Island and from Kuishan Island in Haidao Township, Xiapu County, Ningde, Fujian, People's Republic of China.

History

In a description of the island from 1843, there were three houses near the summit of Larne Island.
After 1949, Chinese Communist forces intermittently occupied the island.
Before dawn on July 15, 1951, Anti-Communist forces planted the flag of the ROC on the highest point of the island.
On March 17, 1965, a company of infantry was stationed on the island; the garrison has remained there to the present.
In 1966, then-:zh:中華民國國防部部長|Minister of National Defense Chiang Ching-kuo visited the island as part of an inspection and gave the island the name Liang Island, derived from the phrase 「島立天中，亮照大陸」.
On the morning of September 9, 2005, President Chen Shui-bian visited Liang Island and other nearby islands.
In December 2011, the ~8,000 year old Liangdao Man skeleton was found on the island. In 2014, the mitochondrial DNA of the skeleton was found to belong to Haplogroup E, with two of the four mutations characteristic of the E1 subgroup.
From this, Ko et al. infer that Haplogroup E arose 8,000 to 11,000 years ago on the north Fujian coast, traveled to Taiwan with Neolithic settlers 6,000 years ago, and thence spread to Maritime Southeast Asia with the Austronesian language dispersal.
Soares et al. caution against over-emphasizing a single sample, and maintain that a constant molecular clock implies the earlier date remains more likely.
At 8 AM on August 16, 2019, the four man crew of a Chinese fishing ship was arrested in the waters off Liang Island.

Geography

Bays of Liang Island include Wujin-ao Bay, Liang-ao Bay, Sheng-ao Bay and Lian-ao Bay. Liang Island's Mount Qingmian reaches above sea level. The island's main port is Baisheng Port.
The island is about long and wide, reaching wide at the narrowest point. Strong winds during the winter make walking difficult.

Economy

Before 1965, fishermen would sometimes live on the island during the summer and leave when autumn started.

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