Paradise lost In fact, as far as many scholars are concerned, it doesn't really matter which part of Taiwan those Portuguese seamen saw first. "Today, what 'Formosa' should stand for is a good, clean environment," suggests Huang Juei-hsiang. The most important thing about tracking down the historical Formosa is to allow us to see what has changed over the past four centuries.
事實上，在許多引經據典、或實地探查「福爾摩沙」的學者看來，到底當初葡萄牙人看到的確切地點何在已經不那麼重要，「今天福爾摩沙指的應該是好的環境品質」，黃瑞祥認為，重尋福爾摩沙，更重要的是讓我們看看今日台灣地景的變遷。