Yushan (mountain)

View of the northern slope of Yu Shan

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The Yu Shan (Chinese玉山, Pinyin Yù Shān, W.-G. Yu Shan, Jade Mountain ') is 3,952 m above sea level the highest mountain of the Republic of China and Taiwan. It is located in central Taiwan at the intersection of Nantou counties, Jiayi and the city of Kaohsiung. About ten kilometers south of the summit runs the Tropic of Cancer.

History

To the west of the Mount Morrison was named after the captain of the freighter USS Alexander, W. Morrison, which the Yu Shan in 1857, first mentioned in writing. During the 1895-1945 ongoing Japanese rule over the island he was Niitakayama (Japanese新 高山, dt " new, high mountain " ), because he replaced the Fuji as the highest mountain in the Japanese Empire. With the words, " climbs the mountain Niitaka " Admiral Yamamoto Isoroku launched on 2 December 1941, the attack on Pearl Harbor operation.

The first ascent was in 1898 by the German scientist Karl Theodor Stöpel instead.

Yushan National Park

The Yu Shan is embedded in the set up in 1985 after it named Yushan National Park. This is an area of ​​1054.9 km ², the largest of the five national parks in Taiwan and extends across the three counties of Nantou, Hualian and Jiayi and a corner of the area of the 2010 expanded city of Kaohsiung.