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Article: `Parasiting Cones'' of Cheju Island Volcano Soar as Nature Tourism Asset of Global Appeal.
- Article from:
- Korea Times (Seoul, Korea)
- Article date:
- September 26, 2000
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CHEJU--Cheju Island is ``an island of gods,'' an international weekly magazine described years ago. If the reference were proper, the physical remanants that might be closer to it and more than the legends will be the parasiting scoria cones scatterred around the volcanic Mt. Halla on this southernmost island province.
In an excess of 360, the cone-shaped grassy hills formed mostly in geological period by the pile of the vesicular ejects of mafic lavass soars as if they are``outcrop of spirits'' on the vast terrain of the unfolded umbrella of the mountain.
Now, local officials boast the outcrops called ``orum'' as their ``rediscovery of the island's ...