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Purple Mountain or Zijin Shan (Chinese: 紫 金 山; pinyin: Zǐjīn Shān; lit. 'Purple-Gold Mountain') is located on the eastern side of Nanjing in Jiangsu province, China. It is 448.2 metres (1,470 ft) [1] high. Its peaks are often found enveloped in purple and golden clouds at dawn and dusk, hence its name.
The Purple Mountain Observatory was established in 1934 funded by the Nationalist Government of the Republic of China and administered by Academia Sinica. The longtime director of the observatory from 1950 to 1984 was Chinese astronomer Zhang Yuzhe (张钰哲, 1902–1986, also known as Y. C. Chang).
The project's name is derived from "Purple mountains majesty", a common mondegreen of the lyric "Purple mountain majesties" from "America the Beautiful". [1] Nashville Scene 's Sean L. Maloney described it as "striking, heavy and maybe a little foreboding, yet it implies a majesty that is completely missing from the often-self-deprecating ...
The Purple Mountain Group is described as a "heather–strewn" massif with five classified peaks at its centre: Purple Mountain 832 metres (2,730 ft), Purple Mountain NE Top 757 metres (2,484 ft) and Shehy Mountain 762 metres (2,500 ft), Tomies Mountain (also called An Chathair) 735 metres (2,411 ft), and Tomies North Top (also called Tomies Rock, or Tomies Chimneys after its gullies that lead ...
Purple Mountain (Wyoming), a mountain in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming; See also. Purple Mountains, an American indie rock band
Purple Mountain, elevation 8,392 feet (2,558 m), is a mountain peak in the southern section of the Gallatin Range in Yellowstone National Park, in the U.S. state of Montana. The Purple Mountain Trail ascends to the summit from Madison Junction.
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Purple Mountain Observatory; 0–9. 1125 China; 1802 Zhang Heng; 1888 Zu Chong-Zhi; 1972 Yi Xing; 2012 Guo Shou-Jing; 2027 Shen Guo; 2045 Peking; 2077 Kiangsu; 2078 ...