Green Island, Taiwan
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Green Island, also known by other names, is a small volcanic island in the Pacific Ocean about 33 km off the eastern coast of the main island of Taiwan. It is 15.092 km2 at high tide and 17.329 km2 at
Lüdao Lighthouse, east of the airport
Lyudao Township Office
Lüdao Airport
Taiwanese indigenous peoples
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Taiwanese indigenous peoples, formerly called Taiwanese aborigines, are the indigenous peoples of Taiwan, with the nationally recognized subgroups numbering about 600,303 or 3% of the country's popula
Green Island, Taiwan
…a calque of its original Chinese name Huǒshāo Dǎo (traditional Chinese: 火燒島; simplified Chinese: 火烧岛). The island was originally inhabited by the aboriginal Amis people. In March 1864 the British brig Susan Douglas was swept off course and wrecked on the island. Her captain then sailed by junk from the…
Paiwan and Rukai people in Pingtung County
A Taiwanese indigenous woman and infant, by John Thomson, 1871
Plains Indigenous boy and woman by Paul Ibis, 1877
The opening paragraphs of the Gospel of Matthew in bilingual parallel format, from the first half of the 17th century, in the Dutch and Sinckan languages. (Campbell & Gravius (1888). The Gospel of St. Matthew in Formosan)