Mount Tambuyukon Explained

Mount Tambuyukon
Map:Malaysia
Elevation M:2,579
Prominence M:833
Listing:Spesial Ribu
Coordinates:6.2086°N 116.6581°W
Location:Ranau, West Coast Division, Sabah, Malaysia
Kota Belud, West Coast Division, Sabah, Malaysia
Kota Marudu, Kudat Division, Sabah, Malaysia
Range:Crocker Range

Mount Tambuyukon or Tamboyukon (Malay: Gunung Tambuyukon, Dusun: Nulu Tambuyukon) is a mountain located at the West Coast and Kudat divisions of Sabah, Malaysia (located on the tripoints of three districts namely Ranau, Kota Belud as well as Kota Marudu). It is considered the third-highest mountain in the country with height at 2579m (8,461feet),[1] [2] lying north of the highest Mount Kinabalu.[3]

Geology

The glaciated summit plateaus and Pleistocene glacial tills of the Kinabalu area including similar deposits near to Mount Tambuyukon indicate that the summits of Tambuyukon, Kinabalu and possibly Trusmadi were significantly higher than other parts of the Crocker Range by the Pleistocene.[4] Together with Mount Kinabalu, it is part of the Wariu Formation.[5]

Biodiversity

The mountain supports a wide range of unique flora and fauna, including a number of pitcher plant species of the genus Nepenthes.[6] [7] [8] A mammal survey in 2012 and 2013 from 300m (1,000feet) to the summit, recorded the second known population of the summit rat,[9] and a total of 44 mammal species.[10]

Features

There are two climbing trails towards the mountain summit, one from Monggis village and the other from the Sabah Parks substation in the same village, both located in the Kota Marudu district with permission from the park authority needing to be obtained before the climbing.[11] The mountain is considered one of Sabah's ecotourism destinations, albeit minorly.[12]

References

  1. Book: George Argent. Anthony Lamb. Anthea Phillipps. The Rhododendrons of Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. 2007. Natural History Publications (Borneo). 978-983-812-111-8.
  2. Book: Lawrence S. Hamilton. James O. Juvik. F.N. Scatena. Tropical Montane Cloud Forests. 6 December 2012. Springer Science & Business Media. 978-1-4612-2500-3. 194.
  3. Web site: Mount Tambuyukon. Sabah Tourism. 2 July 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190702020854/https://www.sabahtourism.com/destination/mount-tambuyukon/. 2 July 2019. dead.
  4. Internal structure and emplacement mechanism of composite plutons: Evidence from Mt Kinabalu, Borneo. Alex Burton-Johnson. Colin G. Macpherson. Robert Hall. Journal of the Geological Society. 2017. 174. 1. 10.1144/jgs2016-041. 5/39. 2017JGSoc.174..180B. 132602468. PDF. https://web.archive.org/web/20190702061114/http://dro.dur.ac.uk/19338/1/19338.pdf?DDD15+dgl0cm+d700tmt. 2 July 2019. dead.
  5. Accretion Tectonics in Sabah: Kinabalu Suture and East Sabah accreted terrane. H.D. Tjia. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. Geological Society of Malaysia. 1988. 2 July 2019. 22. 241. https://web.archive.org/web/20190702062616/https://gsm.org.my/products/702001-101114-PDF.pdf. 2 July 2019. dead.
  6. Clarke, C.M. 1997. Nepenthes of Borneo. Natural History Publications (Borneo), Kota Kinabalu.
  7. Clarke, C.M. 1998. The Nepenthes of Mount Tambuyukon, Kinabalu Park. Sabah Parks Nature Journal 1: 1–8.
  8. Book: L. A. Bruijnzeel. F. N. Scatena. L. S. Hamilton. Tropical Montane Cloud Forests: Science for Conservation and Management. 6 January 2011. Cambridge University Press. 978-1-139-49455-7. 116.
  9. Interglacial refugia on tropical mountains: Novel insights from the summit rat (Rattus baluensis), a Borneo mountain endemic. Miguel Camacho-Sanchez. Irene Quintanilla. Melissa T. R. Hawkins. Fred Y. Y. Tuh. Konstans Wells. Jesus E. Maldonado. Jennifer A. Leonard. Diversity and Distributions. 2018. 24. 9. 1252–1266. 10.1111/ddi.12761. free. 2018DivDi..24.1252C .
  10. Small mammal diversity along two neighboring Bornean mountains. Melissa T. R. Hawkins. Miguel Camacho-Sanchez. Fred Tuh Yit Yuh. Jesus E Maldonado. Jennifer A Leonard. PeerJ Preprints. 2018. 10.7287/peerj.preprints.26523v1. free.
  11. Web site: Mount Tambuyukon Climbing. Sabah Parks. 2 July 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190702022026/http://www.sabahparks.org.my/index.php/discover-us/mount-tambuyukon-climbing. 2 July 2019. dead.
  12. The Nascent Ecotourism Journey for Mt. Tambuyukon. Er Ah Choy. Chong Sheau Tsuey. Alim Biun. Jumaat Adam. Australian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences. 2011. 1991-8178. https://web.archive.org/web/20190702060558/http://ajbasweb.com/old/ajbas/2011/December-2011/3318-3322.pdf. 2 July 2019. dead.

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