Sand Cay or Son Ca Island (Tagalog: Bailan; Chinese: 敦谦沙洲; pinyin: Dunqian Shazhou; Vietnamese: đảo Sơn Ca) is a cay in Spratly Islands of South China Sea. With an area of 7 hectares (17 acres), it is the ninth largest island and the fourth largest Vietnamese-occupied island in the Spratly Islands. The island is occupied by Vietnam (since 1974, first by the Republic of Vietnam, then by the Socialist Republic of Vietnam after 1975), but also claimed by the People's Republic of China, Republic of China (Taiwan) and Philippines.
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“The shore is composed of a belt of smooth rounded white stones like paving-stones, excepting one or two short sand beaches, and is so steep that in many places a single leap will carry you into water over your head; and were it not for its remarkable transparency, that would be the last to be seen of its bottom till it rose on the opposite side. Some think it is bottomless.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)