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Tai Mo Shan
Tai Mo Shan (大帽山) is the highest peak in Hong Kong, with an elevation of 957 m. It is also the tallest coastal peak in Southern China and second tallest in China after Mount Lao, and located at approximately the geographical centre of the New Territories.
The whole Tai Mo Shan mountain range, known as Guang Fu Mountain (官富山, name after the salt field 官富場 in present-day Kowloon Bay) in Ming and Qing Dynasties, covers over 350 square km, and stretches from Tai Lam Reservoir in the West near Tun Mun and Ma On Shan in the east and the mountains of Kowloon and Clear Water Bay in the south. (屈大均《廣東新語》: 官富山西境為急水門（今汲水門），東境為佛堂門，前有大奚山（今大嶼山) Two other tall coastal peaks, the Lantau Peak (934m) and Mount Wutong (943.7m) are approximately 27 km to the southwest and 21.5 km to the northeast respectively. The Tai Mo Shan Country Park covers an area of 14.40 km² around Tai Mo Shan.〔 It is located to the north of Tai Lam Country Park. It is noted to have the 35-metre Long Falls, the highest waterfall in Hong Kong.
==Geology==
As a former volcano, that has long been extinct, Tai Mo Shan is composed of volcanic rocks from the Jurassic age. Today a small hill that is part of Tai Mo Shan, known as "Kwun Yum Shan", still vents warm air though cracks in the rocks that lead all the way to the mantle. The holes that exhale warm air are known as "hot pots". When the surface temperature is cold, and the warmth of the expelled air is clearly discernible, this phenomenon is referred to by locals as "dragon's breath". If the air temperature at the summit is 6 degrees Celsius, then the air emerging from the interior of Kwun Yum Shan is somewhere between 13 and 21 degrees Celsius. These "hot pots" are now just mild remnants of the intense superheated steam vents of the volcanic past.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=8 Mesozoic Post-Volcanic and Tertiary Sedimentary Rocks )〕 The volcanic rocks are mainly coarse ash crystal tuff.
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