Taiwan | Penghu Islands. Also known as Chrysanthemum Island

#Overseas Travel #Taiwan #Natural Travel #Penghu Islands Taiwan is a long and narrow island from north to south, with an area of ​​about 36,000 square kilometers. There is a Penghu County in the Taiwan Strait east of the main island of Taiwan. It is composed of nearly 100 islands of different sizes and is called the Penghu Islands, also known as Chrysanthemum Island. The waters around the Penghu Islands are rough, while the inland sea is as calm as a lake. To the east is the main island of Taiwan, and to the west is the Chinese mainland. Among them, Penghu Island is the largest and has the largest population, while only 20 of the remaining islands are inhabited. The Penghu Islands are mainly composed of basalt and some sedimentary rocks. The archipelago covers an area of ​​only 127 square kilometers, but due to years of weathering and ocean erosion, a variety of coastal landscapes formed by erosion and accumulation have been formed. Pengpeng Beach in Penghu County is a coastal landscape formed by accumulation. Pengpeng Beach is a sandbar formed by accumulation under the influence of wind and ocean currents for a long time. The deposits are mainly composed of sand. Affected by the regular rise and fall of the sea tide twice a day, the deposits are transported day by day, gradually piled up on the bottom of the water, and slowly form coastal landscapes caused by the deposits, such as sandbars, beaches or sand spits that are exposed above the water. Whale Cave, located on the northwest coast of Penghu Island, is a coastal landscape formed by erosion. The area around Whale Cave is a basalt sea cliff with columnar joints. Basalt is a type of volcanic rock, often gray-black in color. When the lava gushes out of the ground, it cools rapidly and shrinks into pentagonal or hexagonal columnar joints. Years of weathering and sea erosion have continuously eroded the columnar basalt, and finally the weaker rocks collapsed first, forming a sea gate. #Overseas Travel# I miss you so much