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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“Mix salt and sand, and it shall puzzle the wisest of men, with his mere natural appliances, to separate all the grains of sand from all the grains of salt; but a shower of rain will effect the same object in ten minutes.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)