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Jeju Island is a volcanic island situated off the southern coast of the Korean Peninsula. The island was produced by volcanic activity which occurred from about 2 million years ago until historic times. The island is 73 km long in the east-west direction and 31 km long in the north-south direction, having an area of 1,847 km2. The island has the typical morphology of a shield volcano, characterized by an overall gentle topography and an elliptical shape in plan elongated in the ENE direction.
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Woo, K., Sohn, Y., Ahn, U., Yoon, S., Spate, A. (2013). Geology of Jeju Island. In: Jeju Island Geopark - A Volcanic Wonder of Korea. Geoparks of the World (closed), vol 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20564-4_5
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