Yagong Island

Yagong Island is an island in the Crescent Group (Yongle Qundao 永乐环礁) of the Paracel Islands, in the South China Sea. It is also known as "He Duck", (male duck), due to its shape. It is located a few hundred metres southwest of Observation Bank (Silver Islet, Yin Yu, Bãi Xà Cừ) in the northeast of the Crescent Group. It is occupied by the PRC, and like all of the other Paracel islands, it is controlled by China (PRC) and claimed by Taiwan (ROC) and Vietnam. It is administered as the "Yagong Community", a village-level division of the Yongxing Dao Neighborhood Committee township-level division, in the county-level division of the Xisha District, of the Sansha prefecture-level city, in the Hainan province. It has an area of just under 1 hectare and a residential population of about 100 fishermen with solar power and a desalination plant.