To the north of Beigan is Daqiu Island. After an exodus of residents in recent decades, the island was said to have been abandoned. While a small contingent of soldiers was stationed here prior to the end of military control in 1992,with their 1996 departure, the island truly became uninhabited.The Lienchiang County Government then decided to relocate the population of the rare Formosan sika deer living on Beigan to Daqiu. With no natural predators, the 12 deer originally placed here have multiplied into more than 100.