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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