Yijiangshan Islands

The Yijiangshan Islands are two small islands 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) from the Dachen Islands, located off the coast of Taizhou, Zhejiang, in the East China Sea.

Yijiangshan Islands
Traditional Chinese	一江山島
Simplified Chinese	一江山岛
Postal	Yikiangshan Islands
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Yījiāngshān Dǎo Wade–Giles I1-chiang1-shan1 Tao3

During the First Taiwan Strait crisis the islands were captured in January 1955 by the People's Liberation Army (PLA) from Republic of China (ROC) Nationalist forces in the Battle of Yijiangshan even as the U.S. Seventh Fleet was patrolling nearby.^{[1]: 215 [2][3]: 279}

See also

• Chekiang Province, Republic of China

28.61°N 121.82°E / 28.61; 121.82