A pearl of the Pacific The impression that many Taiwanese have of Green Island, which sits alone in the Pacific about eight minutes by plane from Taitung, is of a place where political prisoners were incarcerated during the era of martial law, a place which for decades could not be visited and was shrouded in mystery.
太平洋上的珍珠島嶼距離台東約八分鐘飛機航程之遙、孤懸太平洋上的綠島，在大多數台灣人的印象裡是戒嚴時代關政治犯的地方，幾十年來始終籠罩著神秘不可探測的面紗。