Bigeumdo
| Bigeumdo | ||
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| Waters | Yellow Sea | |
| Geographical location | 34 ° 46 ′ N , 125 ° 56 ′ E | |
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| length | 12.4 km | |
| width | 7.3 km | |
| surface | 43.1 km² | |
| Highest elevation | Seosan ( 서산 ) 255 m |
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| Korean spelling | |
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| Korean alphabet : | 비금도 |
| Hanja : | 飛禽 島 |
| Revised Romanization : | Bigeumdo |
| McCune-Reischauer : | Pikŭmdo |
Bigeumdo ( Korean 비금도 ) is an island in Sinan-gun County ( 신안군 ) in Jeollanam-do Province ( 전라남도 ) in southwest South Korea .
geography
The island is located around 36 km west of Mokpo ( 목포시 ) and around 86 km southwest of Gwangju ( 광주 ) and is one of the 827 islands that lie off the southwest coast of South Korea. It is the seventh largest island in the archipelago. To the south of Bigeumdo is the island of Dochodo ( 도초도 ), separated by an approximately 510 m wide strait but connected by a bridge, and the neighboring larger islands, Jaeundo ( 자은도 ), Amtaedo ( 암태도 ), Palgeumdo ( 팔금 ), are listed from northeast to southeast 도 ) and Anjwado ( 안좌도 ), all between 6 km and 7.5 km away. The L-shaped island, which has a length of around 12.4 km and a maximum width of around 7.3 km, rises up to 255 with Mount Seosan ( 서산 ), which is located in the western part of the island m up from the sea.
The island can be reached by ferry from Mokpo, which docks at the only ferry pier in Bigeumdo, which is located on the extreme southeastern tip of the island. From there, highway 805 leads along the island's salt flats to the southwest side, from where the Seonammun Bridge ( 서 남문 대교 ) provides the road connection to the neighboring island of Dochodo.
Administrative structure
The island is administratively organized together with three smaller islands to the east in the rural municipality of Bigeum-myeon ( 비금면 ), which is administered together with the rural municipalities of the other islands in the region of Sinan-gun County, which belongs to Jeollanam-do Province.
history
Salt production through the evaporation of sea water under the action of the sun and wind was first practiced on the island of Bigeumdo in 1946 when the Sam-man ( 박삼만 ) saltworks park , which was used by the Japanese occupiers to work in during the annexation of Korea by Japan was forcibly recruited from the salt pans of Pyeongannam-do Province ( 평안 남도 ) (now North Korea), came back to his home island after the liberation of Korea in 1945 to begin salt production. Since then, sea salt extraction has been an essential part of life on the island.
economy
The islanders prefer to live from agriculture, which is carried out on the north side of the island and between the mountains on the south-west side, and from sea salt production in the salt flats on the south side of the island. Fishing is only carried out for personal use. Four water reservoirs , three in the mountains of the western part of the island and one in the mountains in the eastern part of the island, cover the island's drinking water and industrial water supplies.
Dadohaehaesang National Park
The island of Bigeumdo, surrounded by the Wadden Sea, is located in the middle of the Dadohaehaesang National Park ( 다도해 해상 국립 공원 ), which includes the entire Wadden Sea on the southwest coast of South Korea. Also counts the island to that of the UNESCO -recognized biosphere reserve , Shinan Dadohae ( 신안 다도해 ) includes part of the district of Sinan-gun.
tourism
The island of Bigeumdo has two beaches that are popular with tourists, the Wonpyeong ( 원평 ), which extends in the north of the island to a length of 4.3 km and a width of 60 m, at low tide to about 150 m width and the Hanuneom ( 하 눈엄 ), which is located in the southwest of the island and was the filming location for the Korean TV drama "Spring Waltz ". On the beach of Wonpyeong there are some wind turbines to generate electricity for parts of the island and on the western part of the bay there is a small sheltered harbor for the fishing boats of the local fishermen.
See also
literature
- Dong Won Kang and six others: Distribution of Marine Invertebrates of Bigeum-do Island, Sinan-gun, Jeollanam-do, Korea . In: Journal of Korean Nature . Vol. 5, No. 1 , 2012, p. 51–58 , doi : 10.7229 / jkn.2012.5.1.051 (English, online [PDF; 1000 kB ; accessed on November 14, 2017]).
- Kim Young-ockn: The Sinan Salt Flats . In: Koreana . Volume 11, No. 2 . The Korea Foundation , 2016, ISSN 1975-0617 , pp. 20–27 (German-language edition).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b 전국 안내 지도 . 우성 지도 , Seoul 1999, ISBN 89-85762-10-9 , pp. 18 ( National Guide Map ).
- ↑ a b Bigeumdo Island ( 비금도 ). In: Visit Korea . Korea Tourism Organization , accessed November 14, 2017 .
- ↑ a b Coordinates and longitudes were partly made using Google Earth Pro version 7.3.0.3832 on November 14, 2017.
- ↑ a b Biosphere Reserve Information - Shinan Dadohae . In: MAB Biospere Reserves Directory . UNESCO , accessed on November 14, 2017 .
- ↑ Kim: The Sinan Salt Flats . In: Koreana . 2016, p. 23 .
- ↑ Dadohaehaesang - Introduction . In: National Parks of Korea . Korea National Park Service , accessed November 14, 2017 .