I-lan

Although Taiwan has the advantages of abundant rains and a long growing season, which make it possible in much of the cultivated area to grow two and even three crops a year on the same plot, there are handicaps. Surface configuration and poor soils have limited the arable area to the western plains, the T'ai-tung Valley, and the I-lan Plain-or only some 24 per cent of the land surface in all.

1966 December, “Taiwan”, in Alice Taylor, editor, Focus, volume 17, number 4, American Geographical Society, page 2

Moreover, the anatomical and biophysical studies described in this paper have not only indicated the snail first described as "Tricula" to be a subspecies of Oncomelania hupensis, but to be most closely related to O. h. formosana, and, in particular, to a population of that subspecies from I-lan county, also located in the northern tip of Taiwan.

1968, George M. Davis, “A Systematic Study of Oncomelania hupensis chiui (Gastropoda: Hydrobiidae)”, in Malacologia, volume 7, number 1, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 65

I was told that the security agencies had determined that in the event of a public disturbance of any kind, three men would be destroyed at once. They were Henry Kao, the present mayor of Taipei, Kuo Yu-shin, an outspoken non-K.M.T. member of the Provincial Assembly elected by a solid constituency in I-lan, and me. The three of us were referred to in security documents by a coded sign, three concentric circles.

1972, Peng Ming-min, A Taste of Freedom, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 206