Mount Murud

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Mount Murud
Ultra
Ribu
Coordinates3°55′N 115°20′E / 3.917°N 115.333°E / 3.917; 115.333
Naming
Native nameGunung Murud (Malay)
Geography
LocationLimbang Division, Sarawak, Malaysia
Parent rangeKelabit Highlands
Climbing
First ascent1922 by Eric Mjöberg[2]

Mount Murud or Muru (Malay: Gunung Murud) is a sandstone mountain located in Limbang Division, Sarawak, Malaysia At 2,424 m (7,946 ft), it is the highest mountain in Sarawak.

Geography

Mount Murud at the elevation of 2,424 m, is the highest mountain in Sarawak, located at the boundary between

Epoch, extends for 4 km long, running in the ENE-WSW direction. Mount Murud has two highest points, with one point higher than the other by only 15 m.[1]

Mount Murud
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History

According to a local legend, there was once a penghulu (headman) named Baya Kalong who stayed near the present-day Mount Murud area. He had a beautiful daughter named Kelawing. Kelawing was later married to another young penghulu named Tingang who came from another longhouse. However, Tingang's younger brother named Lawi became jealous of his brother and beheaded Kelawing while the couple was walking upstairs into longhouse. Tingang became angry and tried to kill his brother. Then, their father's sound came from heaven who condemn them for breaking their promise of not fighting each other. After that, a severe thunderstorm came and buried Tingang's longhouse with all its inhabitants with stones raining from the sky. The piles of stones later formed Mount Murud.[3]

The first attempt to climb Mount Murud was made in 1914 by

sacred mountain where smoking and alcoholic drinks are prohibited.[5] Prayer meetings are held every two years by the Mount Murud Prayer Ministry.[6] In 1995, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) organised an expedition to Mount Murud. During the expedition, a species of Vanilla orchid named Vanilla kinabaluensis, Rafflesia pricei, and slipper orchid Paphiopedilum were discovered. A total of 70 samples were collected by the UNIMAS expedition team.[1]

Biodiversity

The UNIMAS expedition team defined the animal and plant species collected from 1,500 m to 1,800 m range above sea level as species originating from the Mount Murud; because specimens collected below this level can originate from the mountain surroundings. Mjöberg noted in 1925 that nine species of birds that were previously known as originated from Mount Kinabalu are also found at Mount Murud. This is supported by another evidence that 77% of Pteridophyte and 75% of orchids are common in both mountains. However, despite the close proximity of Mount Murud with Mount Mulu (65 km WSW of Mount Murud), both mountains have different summit flora. As of 1995, a total of 35 pteridophytes, 7 gymnosperms, 96 monocotyledons, and 207 dicotyledons were listed as summit flora of Mount Murud.[1] The tropical pitcher plant species Nepenthes murudensis is named after the mountain and is thought to be endemic to its summit area.[7][8] Also Murud black slender toad Ansonia vidua is only known from this mountain.[9][10]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Beaman, JH; Anderson, C (1997). The Summit Flora of Mount Murud, Sarawak, Malaysia. Contributions from the University of Michigan Herbarium. pp. 85–141. Retrieved 15 October 2017.
  2. JSTOR 208563
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  3. ISBN 9839665782
    . Retrieved 24 August 2020.
  4. ^ Hong, Carolyn (26 January 2015). "Seeking God in peak pilgrimage". The Straits Times. Archived from the original on 13 October 2017. Retrieved 13 October 2017.
  5. ^ "Mount Murud". Sarawak Tourism Board. Archived from the original on 27 August 2017. Retrieved 4 November 2017.
  6. ^ "History". Mount Murud Prayer Ministry. Retrieved 13 October 2017.
  7. ^ Jebb, M.H.P. & M.R. Cheek 1997. A skeletal revision of Nepenthes (Nepenthaceae). Blumea 42(1): 1–106.
  8. KiB) Carnivorous Plant Newsletter
    25(2): 41–45.
  9. ^ Frost, Darrel R. (2016). "Ansonia vidua Hertwig, Min, Haas, and Das, 2014". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
  10. ^ Haas, A.; Das, I.; Hertwig, S.T. (2016). "Ansonia vidua (Widow Slender Toad)". Frogs of Borneo. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
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