Wooden Boy () is a lake island in Khövsgöl Lake, Khövsgöl Province, Mongolia."Wooden Boy / Dalan Modon Khuis Island". Google Maps, accessed on 2019-05-24. The island is roughly elliptical, measuring 3 km east–west and 2 km north–south. It is located about 11 km from the lake's eastern shore, and 50 km north of the town of Hatgal.
The island rises out of the lake as a rounded bulge, reaching 174 m above the water surface. It is uninhabited and mostly covered by dense deciduous forest. There are claims that a lamasery existed on the island in the 1920s, but it was destroyed in a fire in 1986."остров Далайн-Модон-Хуйс" Природа Байкала (Baikal Nature) website, accessed on 2019-05-24Sergei Volkov / Vladimir Ilyich Potapov: "Остров Далайн Модон Хуйс Арал" Путешествия по Монголии (Travels in Mongolia) website, accessed on 2019-05-24.E. M. Murzaev (1973): Years of Search in Asia. Cited by V. I. Potapov.
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