Giogsafn
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Giogsafn (玉山 Yushan (mountain)), Gegsvoaf, si Taioaan tiongpo Giogsafn svoameh ee cidee niafthaau, ti Køhioong-chi, Lamtaau-koan kab Kagi-koan ee kaukaix, sieciuuii sied u Giogsafn Kokkaf Konghngg. Giogsafn ee koanto tuix haypengbin sngrkhie u 3952 kongchiøq, si Taioaan siong-koaan ee svoaf.
Miaa
Ti Jidpurn thofngti Taioaan ee sizun, Giogsafn høxzøx Syn-køf-safn (新高山 Niitakayama). Khahzar Giogsafn ti Enggie ma hø "Mt. Morrison" si uixtiøh cidee American captain who sighted it (mxsi uixtiøh bøeq kieliam thoankaux-su Robert Morrison).
Jade Mountain
- 1857: W. Morrison, captain of the American freighter Alexander, sighted this mountain while departing from Anping Harbor, in what is now Anping, Tainan (Anpeeng Khw). His log was the first western mention of the mountain.
- 1900: two Japanese anthropologists became the first people recorded to summit the mountain. They gave the mountain the name Niitakayama (新高山) or Mount Niitaka, literally the "New High Mountain". Surveyed 176 m higher than Mount Fuji.
- 1941: Imperial Japanese Navy used the mountain's name in the signal to attack Pearl Harbor.