Mount Bukō
Mount Bukō | |
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武甲山 | |
Highest point | |
Elevation | 1,304 m (4,278 ft) |
Coordinates | 35°57′06″N 139°05′52″E / 35.951667°N 139.097778°E |
Geography | |
Chichibu, Saitama, Japan |
Mount Bukō (武甲山, Bukō-san) is a mountain in Chichibu, Saitama, Japan. A major regional source of limestone, it has been actively quarried since the Edo period.[1][2]
- Relief Map
- Downtown Chichibu
- With Hitsujiyama Park
References
- ^ Martin, Alex K. T. (21 November 2017). "Jobs battle environment on sacred but scarred Mount Buko". The Japan Times. Retrieved 20 April 2023.
- ^ Toyota, Hiroko; Ito, Daiki; Suzuki, Shuya; Hara, Ryohei; Wang, Junxiang (1 July 2019). "Mapping vanished mountain shapes - The struggle between limestone mining and establishing a natural park at Mount Bukō -". Abstracts of the ICA. 1: 1–2. Bibcode:2019AbICA...1..368T. doi:10.5194/ica-abs-1-368-2019.