Xueshan Range | |
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Snow Mountain Range | |
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Highest point | |
Elevation | 3,886 m (12,749 ft) |
Naming | |
Native name | 雪山山脈 (Chinese) |
Geography | |
Location | Taiwan |
Geology | |
Mountain type | Mountain range |
Xueshan Range | |||||||||
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Traditional Chinese | 雪山山脈 | ||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 雪山山脉 | ||||||||
Literal meaning | Snowy Mountain Range | ||||||||
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The Xueshan Range is a mountain range in northern Taiwan. It faces the Chungyang Range on the southeast. The tallest peak of Xueshan Range is Mount Xue/Sekuwan, which has a height of 3,886 m (12,749 ft). Shei-Pa National Park is located around the peaks of Xueshan and Dabajianshan.
Names[edit]
The current name derives from the pinyin romanization of the Chinese name of the range's highest peak, Xueshan. The same name is sometimes written Hsüeh-shan or calqued as the Snow or Snowy Mountain Range. Under the Qing, the range was also known variously as the Middle, Western, Dodds,[1] or Mt Sylvia Range.[2]
List of peaks[edit]
There are 54 peaks taller than 3,000 m (9,843 ft) among the Xueshan Range, 19 of which are numbered among the 100 Peaks of Taiwan:
- Xueshan Main Peak (雪山主峰), 3,886 m (12,749 ft)
- Xueshan Eastern Peak (雪山東峰), 3,201 m (10,502 ft)
- Xueshan Northern Peak (雪山北峰), 3,703 m (12,149 ft)
- Daxueshan (大雪山), 3,530 m (11,581 ft)
- Zhongxueshan (中雪山), 3,173 m (10,410 ft)
- Huoshishan (火石山), 3,310 m (10,860 ft)
- Touyingshan (頭鷹山), 3,510 m (11,516 ft)
- Zhijiayangdashan (志佳陽大山), 3,289 m (10,791 ft)
- Dabajianshan (大霸尖山), 3,490 m (11,450 ft)
- Xiaobajianshan (小霸尖山), 3,445 m (11,302 ft)
- Baigudashan (白姑大山), 3,342 m (10,965 ft)
- Yizeshan (伊澤山), 3,497 m (11,473 ft)
- Dajianshan (大劍山), 3,594 m (11,791 ft)
- Jianshan (劍山]), 3,253 m (10,673 ft)
- Jiayangshan (佳陽山), 3,314 m (10,873 ft)
- Pintianshan (品田山), 3,524 m (11,562 ft)
- Chiyoushan (池有山), 3,303 m (10,837 ft)
- Taoshan (桃山), 3,325 m (10,909 ft)
- Kalayeshan (喀拉業山), 3,133 m (10,279 ft)
See also[edit]
References[edit]
Citations[edit]
- ^ EB (1879), p. 416.
- ^ Braithwaite (1907), p. 106.
Bibliography[edit]
- , Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. IX, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1879, pp. 415–17.
- Takekoshi, Yosaburo (1907), Braithwaite, George (ed.), Japanese Rule in Formosa, London: Longmans, Green, & Co.