3,000-Year-Old Cedar Tree Knocked Over By Typhoon Shanshan In Japan: Report

At its full height, the cedar stood about 26 metres high with a circumference stretching 8 meters around its trunk. Local tour guides found it collapsed on Saturday, broken near its base, Xinhua news agency reported quoting Kyodo News.

A massive 3,000-year-old cedar on Yakushima Island in Kagoshima Prefecture in southwestern Japan has been toppled, apparently due to strong winds brought by Typhoon Shanshan, local media reported.

At its full height, the cedar stood about 26 metres high with a circumference stretching 8 meters around its trunk. Local tour guides found it collapsed on Saturday, broken near its base, Xinhua news agency reported quoting Kyodo News.

Yakushima Island, known for its more than 1,000-year-old "Yakusugi" cedars, was designated as a World Natural Heritage site in 1993.