Taiwan Travel Guide

Last Update: 2010-6-18 18:35:00; By drwi

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The island of Taiwan is located across the Taiwan Straits from Fujian Province on China's mainland. Taiwan is thus situated on the southern fringes of the East China Sea, where the latter borders the South China Sea. The island seems to have first been discovered by a Westerner in 1542 by a Portuguese trading vessel that ran across a large, plush island that was not listed on any existing (Western) map of the time. Impressed by the verdant, mountainous island, the captain of the Portuguese merchant ship is said to have referred to the "new" island as Ilha Formosa ("Beautiful Island"), a name that stuck, "Formosa" being an alternative name for Taiwan that is still in use today.

The first known (Western) map to include the island, a Dutch map printed in 1625,... [ View Details ]

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