Cape Eluanbi or Oluanpi, also known by other names, is the southernmost point on Taiwan. It is located in Eluanbi Park near Eluan Village in the township of Hengchun in Pingtung County.
Eluanbi is the southernmost point of the Hengchun Peninsula, making it the southernmost point on Formosa or Taiwan Island. The area’s geologic formation is known as the Eluanbi Beds (層, céng), a Pleistocene stratum of yellow and brown sand, gravel, and clay. The nearby highlands are considered an extension of Taiwan’s Central Mountain Range.
The cape is located within the 59 ha (150-acre) Eluanbi Park, part of the larger Kenting National Park that covers the southern end of the Hengchun Peninsula.
A viewing platform with a rock marker at the island’s southernmost point has become a tourist attraction.
Fishing and marine sports are popular in the area, but it also includes some nature reserves such as the Longkeng Ecological Protection Area (龍坑生態保護區). Located around Banana Bay, Longkeng preserves coral reefs and an old-growth forest. The seas around Eluanbi are no longer home to any native whales, but it remains abundantly stocked with smaller cetaceans such as dolphins, with sea turtles, and bull sharks. In particular, the 26 species of terrestrial crabs that inhabit the cape make it the most biologically diverse location for land crabs in the world.
