The Penghu (/ ˈpʌŋˈhuː / PUNG-HOO, [1] Hokkien POJ: Phîⁿ-ô͘ or Phêⁿ-ô͘ ) or Pescadores Islands are an archipelago of 90 islands and islets in the Taiwan Strait, about 50 kilometres (25 nautical miles) west of the main island of Taiwan across the Penghu Channel, covering an area of 141 km 2 (54 sq mi). The archipelago collectively forms Penghu County of Taiwan and is the smallest ...

2025年1月13日 · Penghu (澎湖) is a collection of islands in the Taiwan Strait between Taiwan and China. It is also called the Penghu Islands, Penghu Archipelago, and Pescadores Islands. Penghu County is one of Taiwan’s 13 counties and is made up of around 90 islands. Penghu is an incredibly special place. Consider this list of fun things to do in Penghu: a months-long fireworks festival, more temples per ...

2025年4月8日 · Penghu Islands is composed by almost a hundred of large and small islands and islets, apart from Huayu, they are all composed of several layers of basalt coulee and partly sedimentary rock mezzanine; even though the islands are only 127km2 in area, it houses such unique natural basalt landscape that the Taiwan mainland cannot compete against! According to geologists, the basalt in Penghu is ...

Penghu Island Columnar Basalr rock formation is one of the many fascinatinh geological wonders of Taiwan.

2020年7月29日 · Located in the southwest of the Taiwan Strait, Penghu County is composed of 90 Islands and is known as the pearl of the Taiwan Strait. Penghu has lots of natural wonders to offer. Also refered as Pescadores (Fisherman Islands) these hidden islands near the coast of Taiwan are the perfect getaway wi

In Citou Village on Taiwan’s Penghu Island, Taiwan, Grandmother Ying uses a special technique, a centuries-old traditional fishing method. When the tide goes down, she gathers rocks. She piles these rocks underwater, creating cave-like shelters that quickly attract fish. With methods like this, we will not overfish and only take what we need for sustenance. We create a …

This curving weir is formed of piled rock walls in an intertidal zone. At high tide, the fish swim into the weir with the rising seawater and are trapped there when the water ebbs again at low tide. Penghu is likely to have the greatest concentration and number of stone weirs in the world. The Twin Hearts Stone Weir is the best preserved, and most romantically shaped. Make sure to …

2016年5月15日 · Article of a Penghu trip, exploring many great sights on the main island and the smaller island of Wang'an, including old fishing villages and basalt rocks.

2024年7月9日 · An updated 2024 travel guide to the Penghu Islands in Taiwan (澎湖英文介紹). If Taiwan is the best kept secret in Asia, then Penghu is the best kept secret of the best kept secret in Asia. It has just everything you could possibly want from a tropical island va

1992年2月1日 · The basalts in the Penghu Islands are mainly alkalic and tholeiitic. The presence of many half-graben-type basins in the Tertiary sequence in western Taiwan and the paleostress analysis on the Penghu Islands indicate a continental rifting environment in which the intraplate volcanism occurred.