Nat Ma Taung
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Nat Ma Taung, also known as Mount Victoria and Khaw-nu-soum or Khonuamthung in Chin, is the highest mountain in the Chin State of western Burma.[1] Located in Kanpalet Township, Mindat District, Mount Victoria is part of the Chin Hills range, and rises to 3,053 metres (10,020 ft) above sea level.
Nat Ma Taung lies in the Chin Hills-Arakan Yoma montane forests ecoregion. Surrounded at lower elevations by tropical and subtropical moist forests, Nat Ma Taung's higher elevations form a sky island, home to many temperate and alpine species typical of the Himalaya further north, as well as many endemic species.
The mountain is now protected within Nat Ma Taung National Park, established in 1994.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Kyaw Paing (2006) "22-Member Mountaineering Team Conquers Mt. Victoria in Chin State (1999)" Yangon University Hiking and Mountaineering Association, accessed 14 June 2009
[edit] References
- Wikramanayake, Eric; Eric Dinerstein; Colby J. Loucks; et al. (2002). Terrestrial Ecoregions of the Indo-Pacific: a Conservation Assessment. Island Press; Washington, DC.
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