我國1932及1935年命名南海諸島中的132座。1933年法國侵占南沙太平島，我曾抗議並重申主權。依《舊金山和約》，日本放棄戰爭期間占領土地，由中華民國收復。1947年繪製「南海島嶼圖」，正式對外公告。
文／洪健昭（中央社董事長） 中譯／蕭雯（中央社編譯）
It's a real treat. On a hot summer day in Taipei more than seventy years ago, my father told us to try something rare at dinner. Well, there were no more dainties at dinner, then, because food rationing was in force one year after Japan started an undeclared war on China in 1937. I was treated to taimai denbu, which is a Japanese word for mashed and seasoned meat of the hawk-bill sea turtle. It's yummy, for we had little meat to eat in those days.
那真是美味。70多年前某一盛夏夜晚，父親要我們嚐點特別的東西。1937年對日抗戰開始，隔年台灣實行糧食配給，因此當時晚餐好料並不多。父親那時要我吃的是玳瑁田麩（taimai denbu），是一種海龜做成的肉鬆。那時代有肉吃就要偷笑，所以海龜肉鬆對我來說真是美食。
At the dinner table, my father told me – I was a third grader – those sea turtles were caught on are mote island, hundreds of miles southwest of Taiwan. He said it was one of the islands the Japanese took control in 1939. That’s the first time I heard of the Shinnan Gunto, or New South Islands, newly added to the jurisdiction of the prefecture of Takao, which is now known as Kaohsiung. One of the islands, from which the delicacy came, was Nagashima, called Taiping in Chinese after the Republic of China took over from the Japanese after the Second World War. The islands are the Spratlys, a new flashpoint in the South China Sea.
南沙群島為南海新燃點
父親邊吃飯，邊告訴當時念小學三年級的我說，那些海龜來自台灣西南方幾百英里外的一座島，在1939年連同其他島礁被日本占領，合併命名為新南群島（Shinnan Gunto），劃歸高雄州管轄，高雄的古名是打狗（Takao）。那座島名叫「長島」，日本戰敗後由中華民國接收改稱太平島，而新南群島即現在稱的南沙群島，是南海的新燃點。
The island derives its Chinese name from the warship Taiping of the Navy of the Republic of China that was sent in 1946 to recover it after Japan had surrendered. On Western charts it is named Itu Aba Island.
太平島名字取自中華民國海軍的太平艦，該艦於1946年日本戰敗投降後，奉派前往光復太平島。太平島在西方地圖上標示為伊都阿巴島（Itu Aba Island）。
The South China Sea, with a surface area of nearly 3.5 millions quare kilometers, is under the jur is diction of the Republic of China. There are four groups of coral reef archipelagoes and the Scarborough Shoal . The four include the Pratas Islands, Paracels, and the Maccles field Bank in addition to the Spratlys . The Paracel Islands are now occupied by the People’s Liberation Army, which drove out Vietnamese troops in 1974. The Philippines also claims sovereignty over the Pratas Island, which is under the jurisdiction of the Qijin district of Kaohsiung along with the Spratlys. So does the People’s Republic. But neither of them has made an advance to the Pratas Islands, which were found by Chinese people and first recorded during the Jin Dynasty more than 1,000 years ago.
南海面積近350萬平方公里，屬於中華民國管轄，海面上有黃岩島及四座珊瑚礁島群，分別是東沙群島、西沙群島、中沙群島、南沙群島。中共解放軍於1974年將越南軍隊驅逐後，西沙群島便由北京實效統治迄今。東沙群島最早由中國人所發現，在1,000多年前的晉朝，史籍首度出現相關記載。目前東、南沙群島的行政區劃歸為高雄市旗津區。菲律賓及中國大陸皆宣稱擁有東沙群島主權，但僅止於外交宣示，沒有更具體的軍事或其他動作。
Under the policy guidelines for the South China Sea adopted by the Executive Yuan in 1993, Taiwan likes to step up the exploration and management of resources with littoral states and peacefully resolve disputes arising over the South China Sea. Pratas Island where a small military airport has been built has never been actually contested. No negotiation has been started to solve the issue of sovereignty over the Paracels between Taipei and Beijing. The only problem Taipei has is with the Spratlys.
台灣願依國際法解決爭端
根據行政院1993年訂定的《南海政策綱領》，我政府願加強南海的開發與管理，並依國際法和平解決爭端。島上建有我軍事機場的東沙群島，主權衝突從未真正爆發；兩岸也從未就西沙群島的主權爭議展開協商。所以，唯一讓台灣頭痛的就是南沙群島。
Two protagonists in the South China Sea islands conflict seem to have agreed to bury the hatchet and work closely for a peaceful solution of the dispute over the Spratly sand Paracels. That agreement was reached between Nguyen Tan Dung, Vietnamese prime minister, and Guo Boxiong, Chinese vice chairman of the Central Military Commission which controls the People’s Liberation Army. Almost at the same time, the Philippines, a claimant of the sovereignty over the Spratlys, filed an official complaint with the U.N. Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf against China’s claim to the entire South China Sea area.
南海主權爭端的兩要角似乎已握手言和，越南總理阮晉勇及中共中央軍委副主席郭伯雄達成協議，加強合作解決西、南沙的爭端。與此同時，菲律賓就中國大陸宣稱擁有南海海域全部主權，大動作向聯合國大陸棚界限委員會提出抗議。
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