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A great deal of people believe the name White Mountain™ originated in Alaska, but the White Mountain™ name is actually derived from Mount Paektu, an extinct volcano in North Korea. Translated from Korean, Mount Paektu is White Headed Mountain. White Headed Mountain was then shortened to White Mountain™.

Mount Paektu in North Korea

Lake Chon-ji fills the crater on top of Mount Paektu in the northern mountains of North Korea. Chon-ji is a natural lake that was formed in the crater. Its area is 14.4 square kilometres and its maximum depth is 384 meters, the deepest in the world. This extinct volcano is Korea’s highest mountain, rising to 2,744 metres (9,003 feet). Mount Paektu was made a biosphere reserve in 1989. A biosphere reserve is a nationally or internationally protected area managed primarily to preserve natural ecological processes. Biosphere reserves are often open to tourists.

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This page was last updated on Friday, 23 May 2008

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