Dongji Island Introduction
Dongji Island, also known as Dongji Yu, is an island in the Penghu archipelago of Taiwan and serves as an important point on the Tai-Peng shipping route. It is administratively part of Dongji Village in Wang-an Township, Penghu County. The waters surrounding the island (excluding the island itself) belong to the Taijiang National Park. As for the island portion, approximately 1.34 square kilometers of land have been designated as part of the Nanhai Xuanwu Rock Nature Reserve in Penghu since 2009. Dongji Island has a strategically significant location and has historically been a transit station for shipping trade between Taiwan and Penghu, thriving at one time. During the Japanese occupation, to ensure dominance over the Taiwan-Penghu area, military camps and lighthouses were built at both the northern and southern ends of the island, with troops stationed to control the adjacent waters. Local residents graze sheep, and from the northern hilltops, the view of the ancient houses with red tiles and white walls against the backdrop of green grass and black-and-white sheep is quite pleasant. Approximately 500 meters to the northwest of Dongji Island is Shudao (Hutou Island), an uninhabited island. About 4.5 kilometers to the west lies Xiji Island, which was once inhabited and had a branch school, but is now uninhabited. The island has an area of 1.5423 square kilometers at high tide and 1.9045 square kilometers at low tide.
