Yage Taung

Yage Taung
Yage Taung

Location in Burma

Highest point
Elevation 978 m (3,209 ft) [1]
Coordinates 12°46′29″N 99°13′17″E / 12.77472°N 99.22139°E / 12.77472; 99.22139Coordinates: 12°46′29″N 99°13′17″E / 12.77472°N 99.22139°E / 12.77472; 99.22139 [2]
Geography
Location Tanintharyi Region, Myanmar
Parent range Tenasserim Hills
Climbing
First ascent unknown
Easiest route climb

Yage Taung is a mountain of the Tenasserim Hills, Burma.[3] This mountain rises within the Tanintharyi National Park which is coterminous with the Kaeng Krachan National Park zone over the border with Thailand.[4]

Geography

Yage Taung is located in a wooded and largely uninhabited area of the Tanintharyi Region, 1.4 km to the west of the border with Thailand. The closest conspicuous peaks are 1,431 m high Palan Taung rising less than 6 km to the NNW and 1,315 m high Yekye Tong to the SSE, also by the Thai border.[2]

The nearest inhabited place on the Burmese side is Natthi, a riverside village located 26 km to the WSW.[3]

History

On 19 July 2011, a Royal Thai Army Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crashed in the Yage Taung mountainside, killing 9. The chopper had been sent out to recover five bodies of victims of another helicopter crash involving a Bell UH-1 Iroquois that had occurred two days earlier while looking for illegal loggers in Kaeng Krachan National Park near the Burmese border west of Phetchaburi.[5]

A third helicopter, a Bell 212, also crashed in the same area on Sunday, 25 July a few miles further east close to the Kaeng Krachan Reservoir.[6] Superstitious people blamed the three consecutive helicopter crashes on the belief that the densely forested mountains of the Tenasserim Range have strong guardian spirits according to Thai folklore.[7]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Yage Taung - Phetchaburi, Thailand • peakery Retrieved 1 June 2016
  2. 1 2 GoogleEarth
  3. 1 2 "Yage Taung". Mapcarta. Retrieved 1 June 2016.
  4. ↑ AIT News; Myanmar army discover Thai Black Hawk helicopter crash location
  5. ↑ Thailand helicopter crash - The Seattle Times
  6. ↑ Bangkok Post - Helicopter crashes 'explained'
  7. ↑ Bangkok Post - Superstitions haunt forest
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