Meaning of Mount Morrison | Babel Free

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Synonym of Yushan.

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“Another range is the Yushan or Mount Morrison Range, a group of lofty mountains with the general appearance of a high plateau. This range lies to the west of the main Taiwan Range across the mountain pass Patungkuan (Hattukan), which has an altitude of 2800 m. This group of mountains is dominated by Yushan or Mount Morrison (Niitakayama), with a height of 3950 m., the highest peak of Taiwan as well as of all eastern Asia.”

“The park includes the "experimental forest" established 105 years ago by Tokyo Imperial University and administered since 1950 by National Taiwan University to test conservation and land use methods. It covers approximately 32,781 hectares, ranging in elevation from 220m by Choshui River to 3,952m on the summit of Mount Morrison. It encompasses four climatic zones — tropical, subtropical, temperate and boreal.”

“The Yangs chose their new name as a tribute to the highest mountain in Taiwan, Yushan or Jade Mountain, which had been renamed Niitakayama (新高山, new high mountain) by the Japanese. Known in the West as Mount Morrison, after the American freighter captain who first sighted the mountain in the nineteenth century, the peak was even higher than Mount Fuji.”

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