Tatan

Tátán.-Tátán 大担 is eight cables long, with a low sandy isthmus in the centre. The east end is the highest, (about 300 feet,) with a small circular watch-house and three chimneys on it. On the west side of the isthmus is a village. Between this island and the south end of Amoy, only one and a half fathoms were found ; soundings, however, were not obtained close in to the Amoy shore.

[1843 March, “Narrative of the loss of the English brig Ann: and of the caputre of the whole, and the decapitation of forty-three of her crew, by the Chinese authorities in Formosa.”, in The Chinese Repository, volume XII, number 3, Canton, →OCLC, page 123

In the offensive against Tatan Island launched by the Communists in July 1950, Communist enlisted men Pan Chang-lin, Wang Yung-hsin, Hsu Fu-liang and 11 others shot their commanding officer and came over to the defenders of the island.

1951, China Handbook Editorial Board, editor, China Handbook 1951, Taipeh, Taiwan: China Publishing Co., →OCLC, page 157

Little Quemoy is a mountain of tunneled rock between the larger island and the mainland. Chief among the outer defenses of these two are the tiny Tan Islands—Tatan, Erhtan and a still-smaller islet. Control of the Tans, which may be the Chinese Reds first objective, would give them a means of tightening the blockade of the Quemoys still further.

1958 September 12, “War in Asia: Reds to Push to Edge”, in U.S. News & World Report, volume XLV, number 11, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 34, column 2

Tatan and Erhtan, two rocky outposts of Kinmen, are some nine miles southwest of Kinmen and within yelling distance of the Communist-held mainland.[…] The story is at once thrilling and heart warming. Organized into teams of three men each, the unsung heroes would launch their supply-ladden small motorboat in the darkness of night and sail stealthily to the brink of the death trap, the surrounding waters of Tatan and Erhtan.

1958 December 1, “Theirs Is Not To Ask Why”, in Taiwan Today, archived from the original on 17 Apr 2023

Sixty other former ASNA raiders, captured by the Communists while conducting commando activities on the mainland in the early 1960s, were released on the same day from Amoy to Tatan, an offshore island just off the mainland.

Free China Weekly

1975 October 26, “Propaganda behind commando release”, in 自由中國週報 [Free China Weekly], volume XVI, number 42, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2, columns 2, 3