Evergreen Forest of Oenarodo Island, Goheung

This evergreen forest is located on the north-western shore of Oenarodo Island, 25 km southeast of Goheung-eup. Plants making up the forest include gusiljatbam-namu (a chinquapin), hubang-namu (a machilus), paengnamu (hackberry), sangsuri-namu (sawtooth oak), gaeseoheo-namu (a hornbeam), dongbaek-namu (camellia), boribap-namu (a silverberry), gamtang-namu (a holly), songak (Korean ivy), gaesancho (a pepper-shrub), pogisacho (a sedge), and gaetkkachi-suyeong (shoreline pimpernel). The Evergreen Forest of Oenarodo Island, Goheung provides an environment suited to fish and functions as an eobuurim, a coastal forest that draws shoals of fish towards the shore. As one of the few evergreen forests in Korea that retains its warm-temperate forest character intact, it has great scholarly value and is accordingly designated and protected as a natural monument.

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Where it is

Region

Goheung, Jeonnam & Gwangju

Designation

Natural Monument · 천연기념물