About 1.8 million years ago, Taiwan "fortuitously" popped through the surface of the ocean as a result of the pressures of the earth's plates. Even today it continues to rise at a rate of about five centimeters per year.
台灣在一百八十萬年前，因為地球板塊擠壓才「有幸」露出海面，至今則仍以每年約五公分的速度在拔高。