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Paektu Mountain

Mount Paektu
Paektu-san.jpg
Mount Baekdu, April 2003
Highest point
Elevation 2,744 m (9,003 ft)
Prominence 2,593 m (8,507 ft)
Listing Country high point
Ultra
Coordinates 42°00′20″N 128°03′19″E / 42.00556°N 128.05528°E / 42.00556; 128.05528Coordinates: 42°00′20″N 128°03′19″E / 42.00556°N 128.05528°E / 42.00556; 128.05528
Geography
Mount Paektu is located in North Korea
Mount Paektu
Mount Paektu
Location in North Korea, on the border with China.
Location Ryanggang, North Korea
Jilin
Geology
Mountain type Stratovolcano
Last eruption 1903
Paektu Mountain
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Literal meaning "Ever-white Mountain"
Baekdu Mountain
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Literal meaning "Whitehead Mountain"
Korean name
Hangul
Hanja
Manchu name
Manchu script ᡤᠣᠯᠮᡳᠨ ᡧᠠᠩᡤᡳᠶᠠᠨ ᠠᠯᡳᠨ.SVG
Romanization Golmin Šanggiyan Alin

Mount Paektu or Mount Baekdu is an active volcano on the border between North Korea and China. At 2,744 m (9,003 ft), it is the highest mountain of the Changbai and Baekdudaegan ranges. North and South Koreans consider the volcano and its caldera lake to be their countries' spiritual home.

It is also the highest mountain on the Korean Peninsula and in Northeast China. Formed by a huge volcanic eruption, a large crater lake, called Heaven Lake is in the caldera atop the mountain. The 940-1000 AD eruption of Baektu Mountain has been dubbed the "Millennium eruption" or the "Tianchi eruption", and erupted about 100–120 kilometres (62–75 mi)3 of tephra. This eruption was about a Volcanic explosivity index (VEI) of 7. This was one of the largest and most violent eruptions in the last 5000 years (alongside the Hatepe eruption of Lake Taupo at around 180 AD and the 1815 eruption of Tambora).

The modern names of the mountain in Chinese and Korean come from the Sushen or Proto-Jurchen language of the Manchu peoples. Its modern Manchu name is Golmin Šanggiyan Alin or Long/Ever White Mountain. Similarly, its Mongolian name is Ondor Tsagaan Aula, the Lofty White Mountain.


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