Mount Yakebitai
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
| Mount Yakebitai | |
|---|---|
| File:Yakebitai.JPG Mount Yakebitai | |
| Highest point | |
| Coordinates | Lua error in Module:Coordinates at line 489: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). |
| Naming | |
| Native name | 焼額山 (Japanese) |
| Geography | |
Lua error in Module:Location_map at line 411: Malformed coordinates value.
| |
Mount Yakebitai (焼額山, Yakebitai-yama) is a mountain located in Yamanouchi, Nagano, Japan. For the 1998 Winter Olympics, it hosted the alpine skiing slalom and snowboarding giant slalom events.
During the 1998 games, the mountain suffered a mild earthquake that registered 5.0 on the Richter magnitude scale, but the skiing events continued.
References
[edit | edit source]- 1998 Winter Olympics official report. Volume 2. pp. 194–7.
- "Poor skiing conditions nothing new to Whistler". 14 February 2010 Toronto Observer article accessed 20 September 2010.
- Shinmai.co.jp 1998 Winter Olympics venue profile.
