Bukit Pagon

Where is Bukit Pagon?

Bukit Pagon is part of the Temburong.

You will find it in: Brunei.

Summit: 4.294° N, 115.322° E

The story behind it

Bukit Pagon rises in the green heart of Borneo, and although the measured heights differ by a few metres, it is the highest ground in Brunei. Rain falls almost every day, so the forest grows in layers: tall dipterocarp trees below, then twisted mossy trunks higher up, where the branches drip even when it is not raining. Hornbills fly across the valleys with heavy wingbeats, gibbons call at sunrise, and pitcher plants catch insects along the wet ridge. There is no road and no hut, so the way up follows rivers and a narrow ridge, and the walk takes several days with a guide who knows the forest. The summit is shared with Malaysia, since the border runs right across the highest part of the mountain.

Find it on the globe

Bukit Pagon is there as a small peak with its own shape — a horn, a ridge, a volcano — standing on the surface. From far away the planet is only a blue ball; detail arrives as you zoom in, and this one appears once you are close enough. Open it on the globe.

It sits at its real coordinates, not near them — the same numbers listed in the facts above. Switch off the layer for this kind of place and it disappears again; the buttons for that are down the right-hand edge.