How about Ganquan Island in Xisha Islands?

Ganquan Island is located 2 nautical miles southwest of Coral Island in the South China Sea, with an area of only 0.3 square kilometers, 800 meters long from north to south, 460 meters wide from east to west and 8 meters high. It is oval and is the southernmost provincial cultural relics protection unit in China. Fishermen are called "Yuan Zhi" and "Round Island" in China, which is the famous well water of Ganquan.

Ganquan Island presents several concentric circles: the center of the island is formed by the drying of a lake, the soil is mainly phosphorus lime soil, and the outside is a circular forest belt. The periphery of the island is a sand embankment, and the outside of the sand embankment is a reef flat.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty (1909), when Lee Joon, the Guangdong navy commander, was patrolling the sea, he found that there were two fresh water wells in the central lowland of this island, whose springs were sweet to drink, that is, he said, "I have fresh water, which is very sweet when I eat it, and the fruit is very sweet when I dig it, that is, Ganquan Island is commemorated with a sword mast and a flag."

During the two archaeological investigations in March 1974 and June 1975, the residential sites in the Tang and Song Dynasties were found twice inside the sand embankment at the northwest end of the island. Archaeologists found 1 brick temples built by fishermen in the Tang and Song Dynasties and as many as 13 coral stone temples in the northwest of the island. More than 50 pieces of daily-use ceramics were unearthed, including blue glazed pottery ear pots and rolling pots in the Tang Dynasty, blue and white glazed bottles in the Song Dynasty, small four-series pots, blue glazed bowls, carved bowls, lotus bowls, lip bowls and powder boxes. Its texture, style and color are similar to those previously unearthed at the Xicunyao site in Guangzhou. In addition, iron knives, iron chisels and other production tools have been unearthed, and several pieces of Tang Dynasty cookware iron pot, pieces of mud-gray brown pottery ground in Song Dynasty and several copper coins in Song and Ming Dynasties have been collected. Archaeologists infer from this that the ancestors of the Tang Dynasty were the first to use fresh water on the island, and the owners who used these utensils were also the earliest residents of Xisha Islands. They may be immigrants who moved to Guangdong mainland.

1994, the Tang and Song residential sites in Ganquan Island were identified as the first batch of provincial-level cultural relics protection units by the Hainan provincial government. 1996, when archaeologists conducted a general survey of cultural relics in Xisha, they specially set up a stone tablet next to the site of the Tang and Song Dynasties in Ganquan Island, Xisha, which was the first cultural relic protection monument set up by China in the South China Sea. In 2006, it was selected into the list of the sixth batch of national key cultural relics protection units announced by the State Council.

Ganquan Island is an uninhabited island and one of the few islands with fresh water in Xisha. There is an ancient well on the island, which is clear and sweet and suitable for use. However, there are too many reefs around the island, which is not conducive to fishermen's fishing boats to carry out offshore operations, so there are no permanent residents. There are only some temporary wooden houses left by sheltered fishermen around the island monument in Ganquan Island, and the island maintains a very primitive ecological environment.

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