islet

S’Espalmador is an uninhabited islet located to the north of Formentera, and is approximately 1.8 miles long.

The unnamed Chinese vessel had been trespassing Wednesday afternoon by sailing about one nautical mile off the coast of an islet of Kinmen island, Taiwan’s Coast Guard Administration said in a statement.

The confrontation happened on a coral outcrop, which juts out of the high seas like an islet at low tide.

However, five Chinese coast guard personnel, three of them armed with steel batons, followed by boat, alighted on the islet and ordered the fishermen to leave.

The islet was disappearing from view already.