Island China

Islands scattered along a long coastline — volcanoes, coral and blue water — hold China’s oceanic face.

Pingtan Island

Every late spring and summer, "blue tears" surge with the waves: the sea glows at night.

A coast where bioluminescent seas can be witnessed — its blue tears are famed far and wide.

A secret realm of the South China Sea: limpid blue water and coral atolls, pure almost to the point of pristine.

Pristine coral archipelagos in the South China Sea — the blue territory of China.

An island born of eruption, its black reefs telling stories of ancient volcanoes.

China’s youngest volcanic island, where dark reef meets blue sea.

At the southern tip of Taiwan, currents converge where beaches, cliffs and a tropical ocean meet.

The southernmost point of Taiwan — a tropical coast at the confluence of three great currents.