Mountain range in Taiwan
The Xueshan Range is a mountain range in northern Taiwan . It faces the Chungyang Range on the southeast. The tallest peak of Xueshan Range is Mount Xue/Sekuwan , which has a height of 3,886 m (12,749 ft). Shei-Pa National Park is located around the peaks of Xueshan and Dabajianshan .
Names
The current name derives from the pinyin romanization of the Chinese name of the range's highest peak, Xueshan . The same name is sometimes written Hsüeh-shan or calqued as the Snow or Snowy Mountain Range . Under the Qing , the range was also known variously as the Middle , Western , Dodds , or Mt Sylvia Range .
List of peaks
There are 54 peaks taller than 3,000 m (9,843 ft) among the Xueshan Range, 19 of which are numbered among the 100 Peaks of Taiwan :
Xueshan Main Peak (雪山主峰), 3,886 m (12,749 ft)
Xueshan Eastern Peak (雪山東峰), 3,201 m (10,502 ft)
Xueshan Northern Peak (雪山北峰), 3,703 m (12,149 ft)
Daxueshan (大雪山), 3,530 m (11,581 ft)
Zhongxueshan (中雪山), 3,173 m (10,410 ft)
Huoshishan (火石山), 3,310 m (10,860 ft)
Touyingshan (頭鷹山), 3,510 m (11,516 ft)
Zhijiayangdashan (志佳陽大山), 3,289 m (10,791 ft)
Dabajianshan (大霸尖山), 3,490 m (11,450 ft)
Xiaobajianshan (小霸尖山), 3,445 m (11,302 ft)
Baigudashan (白姑大山), 3,342 m (10,965 ft)
Yizeshan (伊澤山), 3,497 m (11,473 ft)
Dajianshan (大劍山), 3,594 m (11,791 ft)
Jianshan (劍山]), 3,253 m (10,673 ft)
Jiayangshan (佳陽山), 3,314 m (10,873 ft)
Pintianshan (品田山), 3,524 m (11,562 ft)
Chiyoushan (池有山), 3,303 m (10,837 ft)
Taoshan (桃山), 3,325 m (10,909 ft)
Kalayeshan (喀拉業山), 3,133 m (10,279 ft)
Citations
Bibliography
"Formosa" , Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. IX , New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1879, pp. 415–17 .
Takekoshi, Yosaburo (1907), Braithwaite, George (ed.), Japanese Rule in Formosa , London: Longmans, Green, & Co.
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