Kitten Mountain (also ''Mao'er Mountains''; ) is a mountain located on the border between Ziyuan County and

Xing'an County Xing'an County is a county (China), county in the northeast of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China. It is administered as part of the prefecture-level city of Guilin. Its area is , with a population of 370000. The postal code is 541300. Admi ...

Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Guangxi,; officially the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China, located in South China and bordering Vietnam ( Hà Giang, Cao Bằng, Lạng Sơn, and Quảng Ninh Provinces) and the ...

(GZAR) in the People's Republic of China that lies about from the

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Guilin Guilin (Standard Zhuang: ''Gveilinz''), postal map romanization, formerly romanization of Chinese, romanized as Kweilin, is a prefecture-level city in the northeast of China's Guangxi, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. It is situated on the we ...

Description

The peak lies in the

Yuecheng Mountains The Yuecheng Mountains (), also known as Laoshanjie (老山界), are a mountain range that lies on the border between Hunan Province and the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, of the People's Republic of China. The range is part of the Nanling ...

, part of the

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and dates to the

Neoproterozoic Era The Neoproterozoic Era is the last of the three geologic eras of the Proterozoic eon, spanning from 1 billion to 538.8 million years ago, and is the last era of the Precambrian "supereon". It is preceded by the Mesoproterozoic era and succeeded b ...

from 1,000 to 539 million years ago. Kitten Mountain is the highest peak in Guangxi, with a prominence of above the surrounding area, and it is a National Level Nature Reserve.

World War II plane crash

On August 31, 1944, a

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aircraft of the

United States Army Air Corps The United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) was the aerial warfare service component of the United States Army between 1926 and 1941. After World War I, as early aviation became an increasingly important part of modern warfare, a philosophical ri ...

crashed on Kitten Mountain following a bombing raid on Japanese warships off the coast of

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia. The main geography of Taiwan, island of Taiwan, also known as ''Formosa'', lies between the East China Sea, East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocea ...

. The ten man crew were listed as

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for 52 years until the remains of the aircraft were discovered in 1996 by two local youths searching for medicinal herbs.

References

External links

Mao'er Mountains
(in Chinese): at the site of the Guangxi Guilin Mao'er Mountain National Nature Reserve Management Office; the link features a picture of the mountain and the local legend of how it came to be. Mountains of Guangxi Highest points of Chinese provinces Landforms of Guangxi {{China-mountain-stub