A Description of Ulleungdo (Dagelet)

In the spring, the brilliant red of the camellia blossoms shines out of their dark green foliage. As one goes higher, the thickets become dense virgin forests of deciduous trees, and they form a thick blanket which softens the sharp outlines of the higher ridges. If one climbs up to the highest peak in mid-summer through the almost impenetrable undergrowth, the climbing plants, and the bamboo bushes, one may look down on all sides on the rounded treetops of the virgin forest, the even green of which is pleasantly by white umbellate flowers. Suddenly these waves of primeval forest fall away on all sides, and beyond a yawning void the light blue of the Japanese Sea shines up from unfathomable depths. If one glances upward in winter, however, the individual gray and leafless trees are clearly distinguished from the dazzling whiteness of the ground. Toward the sea, this blanket of white is often broken, and it finally gives way to the brown and gray of the bare fields and rocks. Patches of evergreen vegetation now stand out with increased clarity against this brown and gray background. 

Hermann Lautensach 1935. Quelpart and Dagelet Islands.