The tourism of this island lays behind compared to its blissful scenery.
The island is three-nil and five-plenty. In this blissful island it is the pride that there are no snakes, thieves or beggars but plenty of Chinese junipers, wind, beautiful wom...
The tourism of this island lays behind compared to its blissful scenery.
The island is three-nil and five-plenty. In this blissful island it is the pride that there are no snakes, thieves or beggars but plenty of Chinese junipers, wind, beautiful women, fresh water and stones.
The volcanic island, formed by the eruption of the lava in the Quaternary Period about 2 millions ago, lies to the easternend of the Korean peninsular, to the N.E. 217㎞ from Pohang city, or to the east 137㎞ from Yimwon-ri, Samcheok-kun, Kangwon-Do.
Historically this island had been named Moo-renung, Woo-renung or Woo-san state before it was named Ulleung-Do. During Yidynasty there were patrol to this island at regular intervals by government patrol system and the island was carried by a law of empty-island policy because of poor transportation with the peninsular.
The volcanic island, peaked by Mt. Seongin-bong 984㎞ above the sea level in pantagon shape, has all the volcanic landscape attributes worth seeing. Still more the maritime climate has sculptured the whole volcanic rocks of the island into various natrual wonders for the countless years on the sea. But the poor transportation with the main land still cause to hide its beautiful vista from the outside.
Thus the writer's interest in this island are the inherited human life style, geology, landforms, climate and vegetations, there of acceleration the tourism development of this blissful island. Descriptions shall go into the geographycal, topographical and geological scenery about 23 items in details.