Kinabalu Park
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How it came to be
Mount Kinabalu in Sabah, at the northern tip of Borneo, rises to 4,095 metres, the highest peak between the Himalayas and New Guinea. It is a granite intrusion formed about 15 million years ago and thrust upward about one million years ago.
In 1851 Hugh Low, a British colonial administrator and naturalist, led an expedition from Tuaran to the mountain, and its highest summit is called Low's Peak after him. Expeditions led by the botanist E. J. H. Corner for the Royal Society in 1961 and 1964 helped make the area a national park in 1964.
The 75,370-hectare park climbs from 152 to 4,095 metres, from lowland rainforest to sub-alpine scrub. It holds at least half of Borneo's plant species, half of its birds, mammals and amphibians and two-thirds of its reptiles, and in 2000 it became Malaysia's first World Heritage Site.
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