Chilan in Ilan County, there remains a "false cypress" forest left behind from the Ice Age, 30 million years ago. Between 17 and 8 million years ago, lava poured out of the sea floor in the southern part of the Taiwan Strait. Today that lava constitutes the basalt formations of the Penghu archipelago. Tectonic and volcanic activity around the same time left us with today's Tatun geothermal zone.
認識「台灣版世界遺產」，便是踏入文化財觀念領域的第一步，讓我們一起來重視人類的遺產，為世人留下雋永的台灣。