What is this?

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    What is this?

    Just clicked on google map from Hong Kong to the north end of the Philippines and noticed a blue 'blob' about half way in the ocean

    Clicked in and it turns out to be an atoll with a small island. Clicking in it seems to have an airstrip and a few buildings on it.

    Anyone knows what this is? Some military airbase?


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    interesting, thanks


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    Funny you should phrase your question in that way... because Itu Aba, the other Taiwan-controlled island in the Spratlys, is apparently named after the Malay phrase "What is that?"