Yagong Island

Yagong Island
Village-level division
Yagong Community
Yagong Island
Coordinates: 16°39′N 111°38′E / 16.650°N 111.633°E / 16.650; 111.633Coordinates: 16°39′N 111°38′E / 16.650°N 111.633°E / 16.650; 111.633
Country China
Province Hainan
Prefecture-level city Sansha
County-level division Xisha District
Township-level division Yongxing Dao Neighborhood Committee
Area
  Total 0.01 km2 (0.004 sq mi)
Time zone China (UTC+8)

Yagong Island (Chinese: 鸭公岛; pinyin: Yāgōng-dǎo) (Vietnamese: Đảo Ba Ba) is an island in the Crescent Group (Yongle Qundao 永乐环礁) of the Paracel Islands, in the South China Sea. It is also known as "He Duck", and is located a few hundred metres SW of Observation Bank (Silver Islet, Yin Yu (银屿), Bãi Xà Cừ) in the NE of the Crescent Group.

Like all the other Paracel islands, it is controlled by China (PRC) and claimed by Taiwan (ROC) and Vietnam. It is administered as the Yagong Community, a village-level division, part of Yongxing Dao Neighborhood Committee township-level division in the county-level division of the Xisha District of the Sansha prefecture-level city, in Hainan province.

It has an area of just under 1 hectare (9,800 square metres). Trees have been planted on the island, as part of a Sansha-wide greening project.[1]

References

  1. "China Focus: South China islands see green transformation". news.xinhuanet.com. 30 July 2014. Retrieved 13 September 2014.


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