Introduction to China's Nansha Islands
Nansha
The South China Sea has three major island clusters, namely the Dongsha Islands, the Paracel Islands, the Zhongsha Islands, and the Nansha Islands, especially the Nansha Islands, which are densely packed with islands and reefs, with large changes in the height of the seabed, with an average sea depth of thousands of meters, and the deepest Manina Trench has a depth of more than 5,000 meters. The dense islands and reefs of the Nansha Are like a long sword, breaking through the sea level and isolating itself above the sea. This article only introduces China's Nansha Islands.
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Islands and reefs in China's Nansha Islands
China's Nansha Islands are dotted with islands and reefs, including six large groups of reef belts and some scattered islands and reefs. The six major reefs are jiuzhang reefs, Zhenghe reefs, TD reefs, Zhongye reefs, twin reefs, and Yinqing reefs, and a large number of islands and reefs are distributed on these reefs (the islands and reefs contained in the reefs and the ownership of the reefs have been described in detail in previous articles, and if you want to know, you can look at my other articles). In addition to the six major groups of reefs in the Spratlys, there are also a number of independent large atolls and a large number of small islands and reefs in the Spratly Islands.
Six reefs and nearby reefs
The Twin Reefs are the first large atolls in The Nansha of China, and the main islands on the atolls are:
Beizi Island, Nanzi Island, Beiwai Sandbar, Gongshi Reef,
Nairo Reef, Yeongdeung Dark Sands
Zhongye Group Reef is the second large atoll in Nansha, China, and the main islands of the atoll:
Subi Reef, Zhongye Island, Tielian West Reef, Tieliang Middle Reef, Meijiu Reef, Tiezhi Reef, Mengzi Reef - Long Beach.
The TD Reefs are the third large atoll in The Nansha Of China, and the main islands of the atolls are:
South Key Island, ShuanghuangShazhou, Yangxin Sandbar, Kugui Reef.
Zheng He Group of Reefs is the fourth large atoll in The Nansha Region of China, and the main islands of the atoll are:
Taiping Island, Zhongzhou Reef, Dunqian Sandbank, Portland Reef, Anda Reef, Hongyu Island, Xiaonan Kaoru Reef, South Kaoru Reef.
The Jiuzhang Group of Reefs is the fifth large atoll in Nansha, China, and the main islands of the atoll:
Jinghong Island, Dyeing Qingshazhou, Dongmen Reef, Anle Reef, Long Line Reef, Sovereign Reef, Oxbow Reef, Chigua Reef, Qiong Reef, Quyuan Reef, Zhangxi Reef, Bianshan Reef, Lobster Reef.
Yinqing Group Reef is the sixth large atoll in Nansha, China, and the main island of the atoll:
East Reef, Middle Reef, West Reef, Huayang Reef.
The six reefs are found on islands to the east
Formation of islands and reefs in the South China Sea
The north, west and south of the South China Sea are the continental slopes extending from the continental shelf, but the east is different, which is trenches and troughs, and the central part of the South China Sea is the deep sea area, where the islands and reefs are densely packed. The South China Sea Basin is a fault basin with a northeast-southwest oriented fault zone, which is said to be in the process of basin expansion, the seabed rises to a high ground or sinks into a trough, and the fault zone formed during the change of the sea basin causes the submarine volcano to erupt and accumulate lava to form a highland, exposing the sea surface to form islands and reefs.
Topographic plan of the Nansha seabed
Many islands and reefs in the South China Sea are below the horizontal level, the South China Sea belongs to the tropical ocean, suitable for coral reproduction, corals breed and grow all year round, piled up on volcanic islands and reefs, and the reefs that have not yet emerged from the dew are gradually raised by coral reefs, thereby exposing the sea level and forming coral islands, so the South China Sea islands and reefs are generally coral reefs.