Thumb Peak
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| height | 1296 m | |
| location | Palawan Island , Philippines | |
| Mountains | Thumb Range | |
| Coordinates | 9 ° 47 ′ 0 ″ N , 118 ° 36 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Thumb Peak is a mountain in the central part of the Philippine island of Palawan . At 1296 m above sea level, Thumb Peak is the highest mountain in the Thumb Range .
The mountain was formerly called Mount Pulgar . This name goes back to the Spanish colonial times. The Spanish word pulgar , like the English word thumb , means “thumb” in German. The Spanish name was probably translated into English immediately after the Spanish rule over the Philippines ended as a result of the Spanish-American War .
The name is believed to have been derived from the profile of the mountain, which vaguely resembles an outstretched thumb with a clenched fist.
In the higher elevations of the Thumb Peak can be found on the species with the ultramafic associated soils, some of which are endemic , such as that for tropical family of pitcher plants belonging kind Nepenthes deaniana , the first time in 2007 after its discovery in 1908 was rediscovered.
Individual evidence
- ^ Macfarlane, JM 1908. Nepenthaceae. In: A. Engler Das Pflanzenreich IV , III, Heft 36: 1–91.