Cape Erimo

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Cape Erimo, image from the ISS, 2009
At Cape Erimo

The Cape Erimo ( Jap. 襟裳岬 , Erimo-Misaki ) is the southern tip of Hidaka mountains and at the same time southeastern tip of the Japanese island of Hokkaido .

Geographical location

The cape, which towers up to 60 meters high, is located southeast of the eponymous city of Erimo in the Horoizumi district in the sub-prefecture of Hidaka .

climate

In the vicinity of the windswept cape, warm and cold fronts meet and provide more than one hundred foggy days a year.

Due to its location, there are strong winds around the cape 290 days a year with speeds of 36 km / h and more.

Attractions

lighthouse

The cape with a lighthouse built in 1889 is visited by more than 400,000 tourists each year.

Cape Erimo is known nationwide for the Enka song of the same name by Shin'ichi Mori .

The wind has its own museum, the "House of the Wind" ( 風 の 館 , Kaze no Yakata ), where you can experience winds with a force of 25 m / s = 90 km / h.

Flora and fauna

fauna

A population of Kuril sea dogs ( Phoca vitulina stejnegeri ) lives at Cape Erimo , an endangered subspecies of the common seal from the genus of the real dog seals . In the 1940s, the population at the Cape was 1,500 copies. In 1986 the number decreased to just 350 animals. In 2004 the stock recovered to a number of 905 copies. In the past, the seals were mercilessly shot down by fishermen and hunters, today the stocks have recovered in a large area of ​​the distribution area, but the main threat is still the fishing nets, in which the animals get caught and then die.

Web links

Commons : Kap Erimo  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 日 高 振興 局 産業 振興 部> 商 工 労 働 観 光 課> 709_ 襟 裳 岬 「風 の 館」 . Hidaka Sub-Prefecture, accessed August 14, 2016 (Japanese).
  2. ↑ 北海道 え り も 町 え り も 町 年表 略 記 . Erimo, accessed August 14, 2016 (Japanese).
  3. ↑ え り も 町 . Hidaka Sub-Prefecture, archived from the original on February 10, 2011 ; Retrieved August 14, 2016 (Japanese).
  4. ↑ 日 高 振興 局 産業 振興 部> 商 工 労 働 観 光 課> 709_ 襟 裳 岬 「風 の 館」 . Hidaka Sub-Prefecture, accessed August 14, 2016 (Japanese).

Coordinates: 41 ° 55 ′ 28 "  N , 143 ° 14 ′ 54"  E