Xueshan
| Xue Shan ( 雪山) | ||
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| height | 3886 m | |
| location | Taiwan , Republic of China | |
| Mountain range | Xueshan Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 24 ° 23 '10 " N , 121 ° 13' 50" E | |
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The Xueshan , also Shiue Shan , Syue Shan or Hsueh Shan ( Chinese 雪山, Pinyin Xuě Shān , Tongyong Pinyin Syuě Shān , W.-G. Hsüeh Shan - "snow mountain"), is the second highest mountain in Taiwan at 3,886 m . It is located in the northern part of the Xueshan Mountains , on the border of the communities of Heping in the east of the city of Taichung and Tai'an in the southeast of the district of Miaoli . The mountain is part of the Shei Pa National Park .
The Xueshan is the highest peak of the Xueshan mountain range named after him (雪山 山脈, Xuě Shān shānmài ), a foothill of the central mountains of Taiwan extending from southwest to northeast to the Pacific coast . Since 2006, the north-eastern part of this mountain range has been crossed by the Xueshan motorway tunnel , which is Taiwan's longest tunnel at 13 km.
history
Until the beginning of the 20th century, the mountain was known in the west as Mount Sylvia . The Japanese gave it the name Tsugitakayama (次 高山"second highest mountain") in 1923, during their rule over Taiwan , because it was the second highest mountain in the Japanese rulership after Yushan, which was also located in Taiwan .
The first documented ascent was by Japanese mountaineers in the 1910s or 1920s (the information on this is inconsistent). The first European to reach the summit in 1929 was the Swiss geographer Arnold Gubler, then a lecturer at the Imperial University of Hokkaido .
Individual evidence
- ^ WH Murray Walton: Some Notes on Climbing in Formosa. In: The Alpine Journal . tape 46 , no. 249 , November 1934, pp. 331 (English, online [PDF]).
- ↑ Oskar Bär: Prof. Dr. Arnold Gubler on his 70th birthday . In: Geographica Helvetica . tape 22 , no. 4 , 1967 ( online ).
