Strangely, the island has many trees that are 5 times taller than normal, like being lost in another planet

That is the island of Sakhalin located in the northern Pacific Ocean. This island is famous for its special vegetation. This place not only has up to 1.000 rare and endangered plants, but also because of the huge size of many trees. Most of them have giant versions that are herbaceous plants. Elsewhere on Earth, they only reach the knee of an adult, but on Sakhalin Island they are up to 5 meters tall.

Sakhalin Island is about 500.000 people living and is concentrated only in the city of Yuzho-Sakhalinsk, the rest of the island's area is a conservation area for animals and plants as well as developing an eco-tourism area.

According to reports by scientists from the Institute of Geology and the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2009, they discovered many plant species on the unusually large Sakhalin island. Buckwheat trees on the island grow up to 3 meters (usually they are 0,4 to 1,7 meters tall); Burdock grows up to 5 meters tall (their average height is 1 to 1,5 meters).

Even when going out, the locals don't even bring umbrellas because if it rains suddenly, they just need to pick a burdock leaf to not get wet. The leaves of the burdock tree on Sakhalin Island have an average diameter of 3 meters. Therefore, people often use them as umbrellas to cover the sun and rain.

During the study, the experts found that the herbaceous plants were unusually large in only 12 southern areas of the island. That is, only these places have giant plants. They suggest that they grow so strangely because of the tectonic activity of the Earth's crust in those areas, which generates large amounts of heat and petroleum hydrocarbons to supply plant roots. Higher concentrations of copper and chromium compounds were also identified as a potential factor of this extraordinary growth.

However, despite the unusually tall trees on Sakhalin Island, people still use them for food. They even become famous local specialties used to welcome tourists visiting this place.

Obviously, the impressive size of the trees on the island has attracted a large number of explorers. No visitor to Sakhalin Island is not posing next to the giant trees in this place.

National Status(Source: Russia Beyond)