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A biodiversity researcher has found a huge basalt rock formation in the Taiwan Strait, resembling a city wall and rivalling similar monoliths on land.
The 200 metre-long, 10 meter-high undersea wall, which looks like thousands of pillars packed together, is near the Pescadores archipelago, researcher Jeng Ming-hsiou said on Monday.
Jeng, who is a professor at the state-run Academia Sinica in Taipei, was diving in the area when he saw and filmed the wall, about 40 km  west of Taiwan's main island.

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