(I have just updated the URL for the links below. To know more about Pulau Rawa, please visit http://www.asiaexplorers.com/malaysia/pulau_rawa.htm To know more about Pulau Susu Dara, please visit http://www.asiaexplorers.com/malaysia/pulau_susu_dara.htm)

Uninhabited and wind-swept, Pulau Rawa must surely be the jewel of the South China Sea. Nobody lives here. The few trees that manage to find a foothold on this scabrous island cling tenaciously to the rocks. And the rocks, they guard the island like razor-sharp sentinels.

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