• The Beautiful Korean Island, Dokdo
• Dokdo’s natural environment and climate have important ecological value.
• 

Climate

Temperature

• Average Annual Temperature : 12 °C
• January : 1 °C
• August : 23 °C

Precipitation

• Average Annual Precipitation : 1,240mm
  (Mostly snow during winter season)
• Typical oceanic climate affected by warm ocean currents
• Frequently foggy
• Cloudy for more than 160 days a year
• Rains 150 days a year

Ecology

• Around 60 plant species have been found on Dokdo.
• Herbaceous Plants:
• including the dandelion, oxalis, foxtail, crabgrass, mugwort, purslane, goosefoot, plantain, orzyfolium, arctic daisy, and mauritania
• Trees:
• including the black pine, lonicera insularis, wineberry, milkweed, and camelia

• Some 130 insect species including the dragonfly, earwig, locust, beetle, fly, and painted lady butterfly

• Some 160 bird species, including the stormy petrel, streaked shearwater, black-tailed gull, kestrel, osprey, dusky thrush, glaucous gull, black wood pigeon, row, redstart, and Chinese egret

• Fish Species:
• including the pacific saury, yellow tail, swellfish, gizzard shad, conger eel, flatfish, sandfish, atka mackerel, black rockfish, and squid
• Shellfish:
• including the abalone, conch, and mussel
• Marine Algae:
• including seaweed, kelp, laver, and gelidium
• Other Marine Life:
• including the sea cucumber, shrimp, red snow crab, and sea urchin

Dokdo serves as a shelter to migratory birds, and is essential to the research of island biogeography, since it enables research on the origin and distribution of Korea's animal, plant and marine life.