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
Xueshan ("Snowy Mountain"), which has a height of .
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 .
Under the Qing, the range was also known variously as the Middle, Western, Dodds, or
List of peaks
There are 54 peaks taller than among the Xueshan Range, 19 of which are numbered among the
100 Peaks of Taiwan The Baiyue (Mandarin: 臺灣百岳; Pīnyīn: Táiwān bǎiyuè) is a list of one hundred mountain peaks in Taiwan. They were chosen by a group of prominent Taiwanese hikers from mountain peaks known at the time to be over 3,000 meters in height. ...
:
*Xueshan Main Peak (雪山主峰),
*Xueshan Eastern Peak (雪山東峰),
*Xueshan Northern Peak (雪山北峰),
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Daxueshan (大雪山),
*Zhongxueshan (中雪山),
*Huoshishan (火石山),
*Touyingshan (頭鷹山),
*Zhijiayangdashan (志佳陽大山),
*Dabajianshan (大霸尖山),
*Xiaobajianshan (小霸尖山),
*Baigudashan (白姑大山),
*Yizeshan (伊澤山),
*Dajianshan (大劍山),
*Jianshan (劍山]),
*Jiayangshan (佳陽山),
*Pintianshan (品田山),
*Chiyoushan (池有山),
*Taoshan (桃山),
*Kalayeshan (喀拉業山),
See also
*
Hsuehshan Tunnel
References
Citations
Bibliography
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Mountain ranges of Taiwan
Landforms of Taichung
Landforms of Miaoli County
Landforms of Hsinchu County
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