This list of highest mountains of New Guinea shows all mountains on the island of New Guinea that are at least 3750 m high and have a topographic prominence of 500 m or more. These c. 50 peaks are also the highest mountains of Australasia and the continent of Australia, where, outside New Guinea, the highest mountain is Aoraki / Mount Cook in New Zealand with a height of 3724 m.[1] A list of highest mountains of Oceania with the same limitations is almost identical, with the addition of the Hawaiian volcanoes of Mauna Kea (4205 m) and Mauna Loa (4169 m) in 18th and 20th positions. The list also shows the 36 highest thus defined mountains of Indonesia, except for the 3805 m high Gunung Kerinci on Sumatra (#29 in Indonesia), and the 16 highest mountains of Papua New Guinea.
Many mountains in New Guinea are poorly surveyed and some major summits remain unnamed on maps. Even well measured mountains have conflicting heights on otherwise authoritative maps. For example, the highest point in Oceania, Carstensz Pyramid, was established to be 4884 m in 1973 when an Australian survey expedition put a beacon on the summit. This corresponded closely to the 4866 m estimate by the first Lorentsz Expedition in 1910 using repeated theodolite observations from the south coast. However, over time the mountain had grown in stature: measurements from northern observation peaks for the highest summit (each time Ngga Pulu) were 5000 m in 1910 by Ludolph Doorman and 5030 m in 1926 by Charles C.F.M. Le Roux.[2] The 1936 Carstensz Expedition using barometric and boiling point measurements on the summit of Ngga Pulu also derived an elevation of 5030 m.[3] After ascending the Pyramid in 1962, Heinrich Harrer even estimated that peak to be 17,096 feet or 5211 m high.[4] The 1973 survey established that the 1936 barometric estimates were consistently between 118 and 127 m too high. Nevertheless, the 5030 m height is still prevalent in most atlases and maps.[5]
Disappearing and disappeared glaciers of the Snowy Mountainsedit
All mountains in West Papua are in the Maoke Mountains, a translation of the name “Sneeuwgebergte” or Snowy Mountains endowed to them in 1623 by Jan Carstensz, at which time many of the peaks indeed were covered by extensive ice caps. By the beginning of the 20th century, at least five such glaciated regions remained on the highest mountains. In 1913, the 4520–4550 m high Prins Hendrik-top (now Puncak Yamin) was named and reported to have some "eternal" snow.[6] The ice cap of Wilhelmina Peaks vanished between 1939 and 1963, while the Mandala / Juliana ice cap disappeared in the 1990s.[7] The Idenburg glacier on Ngga Pilimsit dried up in 2003, leaving currently only the remnants of the glaciers on Mount Carstensz, the last of which are expected to disappear before 2025 [8] and perhaps much earlier.[9] The snow melt on the last mountain has caused a change of the highest summit of New Guinea: somewhere between 1936 and 1973 the title of highest summit of Oceania changed from Ngga Pulu, the highest point of the Northwall Firn (by then split into the West and East Northwall Firn; only small patches of the latter still exist), to the rocky spires of Carstensz Pyramid 3 km to its south-west.[10]
The list contains some unranked summits that are either of general interest, may show topographic prominences of >500 m given better data, or are more than 12 km isolated from any higher point.
^Aoraki was 3764 m high until 14 December 1991, when a massive rock/ice collapse broke off 10 meters. Subsequent erosion of the exposed ice cap reduced its height by a further 30 m as of November 2013.[1]
^Charles C.F.M. Le Roux, The Mountain Papuas of New Guinea and their environment, Volume 1, Leiden 1948, pp. 40 & 45.
^Heinrich Harrer's sketch map from Ich komme aus der Steinzeit. Pinguin, Innsbruck 1976, ISBN3-524-00331-1.
^Edward G. Anderson, Topographic survey and cartography, in Hope, Geoff S, et al (Editors) 1976, The Equatorial Glaciers of New Guinea (Results of the 1971-1973 Australian Universities' Expeditions to Irian Jaya: survey, glaciology, meteorology, biology and palaeoenvironments), Rotterdam: A.A. Balkema. 1976, pp. 19-23.
^E.J. Brill, Tijdschrift van het Koninklijk Nederlandsch Aardrijkskundig Genootschap, 1913, p. 180.
^Klein, A.G., Kincaid, J.L., 2008. On the disappearance of the Puncak Mandala ice cap, Papua. Journal of Glaciology 54, 195–198.
^Klein, A.G. and J.L. Kincaid. 2006. Retreat of glaciers on Puncak Jaya, Irian Jaya, determined from 2000 and 2002 IKONOS satellite images. J. Glaciol., 52(176), 65–79.
^McDowell, Robin (July 1, 2010). . Jakarta Globe. Archived from the original on August 16, 2011. Retrieved 2011-10-23.
^Anderson, p. 22, and Jean Jacques Dozy, Vom höchsten Gipfel bis in die tiefste Grube. 2012-04-02 at the Wayback Machine, Bull. angew. Geol. 7:S.67-80. 2002.
^Only mountains with a prominence of 500 m or more are ranked.
^Many names are from the 1942 and 1966 American army maps and can be outdated [2][3].
^Most "round" heights are crude estimates from contour lines on Google terrain maps. Based on the average of carefully measured summit heights in the region, peaks are here presented to be 40 m higher than the highest encircling contour line.
^The prominence data were extracted from a combination of maps and Google terrain data. Values for mountains with prominences over 1,500 m were copied from the peaklist.org ultras website.
^The nearest higher elevation to Puncak Jaya is on the slopes of Yulong Xueshan in China.
^Measured in 1975 at 4855 m (Anderson, p. 21), but its exposed spire is now also higher than the neighboring, melting Ngga Pulu
^In 1936, the snow dome of Ngga Pulu seems to have been ca. 4900 m high and with that the highest summit in the Netherlands Indies and Oceania (Anderson p. 22). For this reason it became in 1963 the original bearer of the name Puntjak Sukarno and then Puntjak Djaja. However, snowmelt had lowered it to 4862 m by 1973 (Anderson, p. 22).
^An alternative height of 4640 m is inconsistent with 4720 m SRTM-contour lines around the summit.
^ abOn some maps and in some sources the Jayawijaya / Orange range represents the eastern half of the Nassau range (from the 3475 m Jila Pass at 4°5′36″S137°40′16″E / 4.09333°S 137.67111°E / -4.09333; 137.67111 to the Baliem gorge). The original Orange range is then often considered part of the Star mountains, the eastern section of the Jayawijaya range, or has the name Wisnumurti Range.
^According to "Ngga Pilimsit, Indonesia". Peakbagger.com., which site uses the published height of Ngga Pilimsit and a maximum 4160 m for the key col from Google terrain. The latter's SRTM data shows a maximum of 4640 for the peak though and may be particularly off for the region.
^ abThe names of the Valentijn and Jan Pietersz Coen mountains are switched on different maps, sometimes JPC, sometimes Valentijn being northwest and having the highest summit of ca. 4500 m.
^ abOne of multiple summits on a ridge with the same highest contour lines.
^A mountain originally named after the son of Charles Darwin. The height of Mt Ubia is usually given as 4234 m. This probably was the 1910 theodolite measurement from the south coast of the top of the spectacular, 1500m-high south wall. The true summit 2 km NE would have been out of view.
^The first recorded ascendants reported that the local, (Nankina) name consistently is Boising, meaning "Stop the fight". Their GPS measurements on the top were 3751 and 4155 m, while its height is indicated as 4175 m on the 1:100,000 ‘Saidor’ topographic sheet, based on 1973-74 aerial photography. This summit is unnamed on most maps, but is possibly the same as Mount Gladstone, a name bestowed by Hugo Zöller to the highest summit in this range during his expedition through the Finisterre range in 1888. It appeared with this name and a height of just 11,400 feet (c. 3475 m) on the 1942 American Army Map.
^Sometimes reported with an SRTM-data incompatible 4350 m height.
^The height of Antares, always considered the highest mountain of the Sterrengebergte (Star mountains), has been all over the map. The first ascendants underestimated it by some 300 m to be 3650 m [4] while the height of 4170 m on many maps appears 200 m too high. The highest (very narrow) SRTM-contours around the summit are 3940 m.
^The commonly reported height of 4,360 m appears 400 m off target.
^Bondewit and Kawam are local, Nankina names for mountains roughly corresponding to the location of this mountain and ca 3950 m mountain in between it and Mt Boising.
^Name (after the Tiom pass to the south) and height from J. Ehlers, P.L. Gibbard, P.D. Hughes, Quaternary Glaciations - Extent and Chronology: A Closer Look, Elsevier Publishers, Amsterdam 2011, pp. 1026-1031.
^ abMap in RAP Expedition Kaijende Highlands 2005 report 2011-09-28 at the Wayback Machine.
^MacGregor, William 1899. ‘Despatch reporting visit inland to the western end of the Owen Stanley Range, and thence across the island to the north-east coast.’ Annual Report of British New Guinea 1897-98. Appendix B. Melbourne, Victoria: Government Printer
^Many sources give a height of 3834 m for Mt Hagen, but SRTM data show multiple regions on the crater rim with contour lines of 3780 m.
^The 3774 m height is reported for Mount Bedego, which could match the 3700 m contour lines at this location, which more often bears the name Mount Undan or Mount Udon.
^The highest point of the Weyland mountains for many years was held to be 3891 m, but this is not borne out by maximum SRTM-contours of 3720 m.
^A pointy peak which may well be over 3750 m high despite SRTM-contours of only 3700 m.
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This list of highest mountains of New Guinea shows all mountains on the island of New Guinea that are at least 3750 m high and have a topographic prominence of 500 m or more These c 50 peaks are also the highest mountains of Australasia and the continent of Australia where outside New Guinea the highest mountain is Aoraki Mount Cook in New Zealand with a height of 3724 m 1 A list of highest mountains of Oceania with the same limitations is almost identical with the addition of the Hawaiian volcanoes of Mauna Kea 4205 m and Mauna Loa 4169 m in 18th and 20th positions The list also shows the 36 highest thus defined mountains of Indonesia except for the 3805 m high Gunung Kerinci on Sumatra 29 in Indonesia and the 16 highest mountains of Papua New Guinea Mount Carstensz from the east in 1972 Left to right North Wall Peaks Ngga Pulu Carstensz East and Puncak Jaya or Carstensz Pyramid Due to glacier melt the rocky ridge of Jaya has surpassed Ngga Pulu as the highest summit of Oceania Mount Wilhelm highest peak of Papua New Guinea Contents 1 Limited topographical data 2 Disappearing and disappeared glaciers of the Snowy Mountains 3 The list 4 Notes and referencesLimited topographical data editMany mountains in New Guinea are poorly surveyed and some major summits remain unnamed on maps Even well measured mountains have conflicting heights on otherwise authoritative maps For example the highest point in Oceania Carstensz Pyramid was established to be 4884 m in 1973 when an Australian survey expedition put a beacon on the summit This corresponded closely to the 4866 m estimate by the first Lorentsz Expedition in 1910 using repeated theodolite observations from the south coast However over time the mountain had grown in stature measurements from northern observation peaks for the highest summit each time Ngga Pulu were 5000 m in 1910 by Ludolph Doorman and 5030 m in 1926 by Charles C F M Le Roux 2 The 1936 Carstensz Expedition using barometric and boiling point measurements on the summit of Ngga Pulu also derived an elevation of 5030 m 3 After ascending the Pyramid in 1962 Heinrich Harrer even estimated that peak to be 17 096 feet or 5211 m high 4 The 1973 survey established that the 1936 barometric estimates were consistently between 118 and 127 m too high Nevertheless the 5030 m height is still prevalent in most atlases and maps 5 Disappearing and disappeared glaciers of the Snowy Mountains editAll mountains in West Papua are in the Maoke Mountains a translation of the name Sneeuwgebergte or Snowy Mountains endowed to them in 1623 by Jan Carstensz at which time many of the peaks indeed were covered by extensive ice caps By the beginning of the 20th century at least five such glaciated regions remained on the highest mountains In 1913 the 4520 4550 m high Prins Hendrik top now Puncak Yamin was named and reported to have some eternal snow 6 The ice cap of Wilhelmina Peaks vanished between 1939 and 1963 while the Mandala Juliana ice cap disappeared in the 1990s 7 The Idenburg glacier on Ngga Pilimsit dried up in 2003 leaving currently only the remnants of the glaciers on Mount Carstensz the last of which are expected to disappear before 2025 8 and perhaps much earlier 9 The snow melt on the last mountain has caused a change of the highest summit of New Guinea somewhere between 1936 and 1973 the title of highest summit of Oceania changed from Ngga Pulu the highest point of the Northwall Firn by then split into the West and East Northwall Firn only small patches of the latter still exist to the rocky spires of Carstensz Pyramid 3 km to its south west 10 Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as KML GPX all coordinates GPX primary coordinates GPX secondary coordinates The list editThe list contains some unranked summits that are either of general interest may show topographic prominences of gt 500 m given better data or are more than 12 km isolated from any higher point Rank 11 Mountain 12 Height m 13 Range Country rank Coordinates 14 Prominence m 15 Isolation km 16 First ascent 17 1 Puncak Jaya Carstensz Pyramid 4884 Western Sudirman Nassau Indonesia 1 04 04 43 S 137 09 30 E 4 07861 S 137 15833 E 4 07861 137 15833 1 Carstensz Pyramid Puncak Jaya 4884 m 4884 5261 13 Feb 1962 Sumantri Ngga Pulu NW 18 4870 Western Sudirman Nassau Indonesia 04 03 43 S 137 11 06 E 4 06194 S 137 18500 E 4 06194 137 18500 Sumantri Ngga Pulu NW 4870 m 350 3 5 Feb 1962 Ngga Pulu 19 4862 Western Sudirman Nassau Indonesia 04 03 59 S 137 11 16 E 4 06639 S 137 18778 E 4 06639 137 18778 Ngga Pulu 4862 m 100 0 6 5 Dec 1936 Carstensz East 4820 Western Sudirman Nassau Indonesia 04 05 00 S 137 11 06 E 4 08333 S 137 18500 E 4 08333 137 18500 Carstensz East 4820 m 280 1 9 5 Dec 1936 2 Mandala Juliana Pk Abom 20 4760 Jayawijaya Orange 21 Indonesia 2 04 42 31 S 140 17 22 E 4 70861 S 140 28944 E 4 70861 140 28944 2 Mandala Juliana Pk Abom 4760 m 2760 351 4 9 Sep 1959 3 Trikora Wilhelmina Pk 22 4730 Eastern Sudirman Nassau 21 Indonesia 3 04 15 44 S 138 40 54 E 4 26222 S 138 68167 E 4 26222 138 68167 3 Trikora Wilhelmina Pk 4730 m 1262 167 0 21 Feb 1913 4 Ngga Pilimsit Idenburg Pk 23 4717 Western Sudirman Nassau Indonesia 4 04 02 08 S 137 03 33 E 4 03556 S 137 05917 E 4 03556 137 05917 Ngga Pilimsit Idenburg Pk 4717 m 557 24 11 1 21 Feb 1962 5 Yamin Prins Hendrik Pk 4540 Jayawijaya Orange Indonesia 5 04 40 59 S 140 04 52 E 4 68306 S 140 08111 E 4 68306 140 08111 4 Yamin Prins Hendrik Pk 4540 m 700 20 0 6 Cornelis Speelman Mts 4540 Jayawijaya Orange Indonesia 6 04 34 28 S 140 08 14 E 4 57444 S 140 13722 E 4 57444 140 13722 5 Cornelis Speelman Mts 4540 m 700 18 2 7 Mt Wilhelm Enduwa Kombuglu 4509 Bismarck Range Papua New Guinea 1 05 46 48 S 145 01 46 E 5 78000 S 145 02944 E 5 78000 145 02944 6 Mt Wilhelm Enduwa Kombuglu 4509 m 2969 537 7 15 Aug 1938 8 J P Coen Pk 25 4500 Jayawijaya Orange Indonesia 7 04 18 16 S 139 37 53 E 4 30444 S 139 63139 E 4 30444 139 63139 7 J P Coen Pk 4500 m 820 63 5 9 Pt 4460 26 4460 Western Sudirman Nassau Indonesia 8 04 05 04 S 137 20 59 E 4 08444 S 137 34972 E 4 08444 137 34972 8 Pt 4460 4460 m 600 17 2 10 Valentijn Pks 25 4453 Jayawijaya Orange Indonesia 9 04 25 12 S 139 44 08 E 4 42000 S 139 73556 E 4 42000 139 73556 9 Valentijn Pks 4453 m 640 17 1 Dom Platen Spitz fr 4420 Western Sudirman Nassau Indonesia 04 05 29 S 137 08 02 E 4 09139 S 137 13389 E 4 09139 137 13389 Dom Platen Spitz 4420 m 460 2 1 Akimuga Prince Willem I Pk 4390 Western Sudirman Nassau Indonesia 04 06 47 S 137 27 56 E 4 11306 S 137 46556 E 4 11306 137 46556 Akimuga Prince Willem I Pk 4390 m 340 12 3 11 Zaagtoppen Saw Mtns 4380 Jayawijaya Orange Indonesia 10 04 33 01 S 139 55 06 E 4 55028 S 139 91833 E 4 55028 139 91833 10 Zaagtoppen 4380 m 680 19 1 12 Mt Giluwe 4367 New Guinea Highlands Papua New Guinea 2 06 02 36 S 143 53 11 E 6 04333 S 143 88639 E 6 04333 143 88639 11 Mt Giluwe 4367 m 2507 129 5 16 Jun 1934 13 Willem II Pk 4360 Eastern Sudirman Nassau Indonesia 11 04 09 43 S 138 20 24 E 4 16194 S 138 34000 E 4 16194 138 34000 12 Willem II Pk 4360 m 620 36 9 14 Ubia Mt Leonard Darwin 27 4340 Western Sudirman Nassau Indonesia 12 04 00 22 S 136 48 09 E 4 00611 S 136 80250 E 4 00611 136 80250 13 Ubia Mt Leonard Darwin 4340 m 580 20 3 Doema 4340 Western Sudirman Nassau Indonesia 03 57 53 S 136 52 42 E 3 96472 S 136 87833 E 3 96472 136 87833 Doema 4340 m 340 12 2 15 Willem I Pk 4320 Eastern Sudirman Nassau Indonesia 13 04 08 26 S 138 15 44 E 4 14056 S 138 26222 E 4 14056 138 26222 14 Willem I Pk 4320 m 660 8 9 16 Rumphius Pk 4320 Eastern Sudirman Nassau Indonesia 14 04 17 44 S 138 48 34 E 4 29556 S 138 80944 E 4 29556 138 80944 15 Rumphius Pk 4320 m 540 13 0 17 Pt 4260 4300 Jayawijaya Orange Indonesia 15 04 38 10 S 140 17 27 E 4 63611 S 140 29083 E 4 63611 140 29083 16 Pt 4260 4300 m 540 5 4 Pt 4240 4240 Eastern Sudirman Nassau Indonesia 04 09 29 S 138 26 50 E 4 15806 S 138 44722 E 4 15806 138 44722 Pt 4240 4240 m 400 11 6 18 Prince Willem II Pk 4220 Eastern Sudirman Nassau Indonesia 16 04 09 01 S 137 56 57 E 4 15028 S 137 94917 E 4 15028 137 94917 17 Prince Willem II Pk 4220 m 540 30 7 19 Pt 4180 4180 Western Sudirman Nassau Indonesia 17 04 00 36 S 136 51 30 E 4 01000 S 136 85833 E 4 01000 136 85833 18 Pt 4180 4180 m 600 5 1 20 Mt Boising Gladstone 28 4155 Finisterre Range Papua New Guinea 3 05 57 14 S 146 22 31 E 5 95389 S 146 37528 E 5 95389 146 37528 19 Mt Boising 4150 m 3710 148 4 25 June 2014 29 21 Mt Sarawaget Bangeta 30 4121 Saruwaged Range Papua New Guinea 4 06 18 38 S 147 05 25 E 6 31056 S 147 09028 E 6 31056 147 09028 20 Mt Sarawaget Bangeta 4121 m 1701 88 4 1912 22 Mt Kabangama 4104 Kubor Range Papua New Guinea 5 06 03 38 S 144 36 56 E 6 06056 S 144 61556 E 6 06056 144 61556 21 Mt Kabangama 4104 m 2284 52 4 23 Pt 4100 31 4100 Maoke Range Indonesia 18 03 57 26 S 137 44 57 E 3 95722 S 137 74917 E 3 95722 137 74917 22 Pt 4100 4100 m 510 25 8 24 Ngga Nggulumbulu 4061 Nggulumbulu Hens Range Indonesia 19 03 45 30 S 137 18 40 E 3 75833 S 137 31111 E 3 75833 137 31111 23 Ngga Nggulumbulu 4061 m 1300 32 5 Mt Kotewon 4060 Saruwaged Range Papua New Guinea 06 14 09 S 146 57 37 E 6 23583 S 146 96028 E 6 23583 146 96028 Mt Kotewon 4060 m 460 16 2 Pt 4040 4040 Saruwaged Range Papua New Guinea 06 14 13 S 146 54 26 E 6 23694 S 146 90722 E 6 23694 146 90722 Pt 4040 4040 m 460 5 9 Prins Maurits Mtns 4040 Western Sudirman Nassau Indonesia 04 06 08 S 137 39 10 E 4 10222 S 137 65278 E 4 10222 137 65278 Prins Maurits Mtns 4040 m 380 16 4 25 Mt Victoria 4038 Owen Stanley Range Papua New Guinea 6 08 53 34 S 147 31 59 E 8 89278 S 147 53306 E 8 89278 147 53306 24 Mt Victoria 4038 m 2738 287 8 11 Jun 1889 Frederik Hendrik Pk 4020 Western Sudirman Nassau Indonesia 04 05 29 S 137 46 02 E 4 09139 S 137 76722 E 4 09139 137 76722 Frederik Hendrik Pk 4020 m 280 12 8 26 Johan Willem Friso Pk 4000 Eastern Sudirman Nassau Indonesia 20 04 10 12 S 138 01 33 E 4 17000 S 138 02583 E 4 17000 138 02583 25 Johan Willem Friso Pk 4000 m 560 2 9 27 Mt Albert Edward 3993 Owen Stanley Range Papua New Guinea 7 08 24 44 S 147 24 12 E 8 41222 S 147 40333 E 8 41222 147 40333 26 Mt Albert Edward 3993 m 980 54 8 1906 28 Antares 32 3970 Star Mountains Indonesia 21 04 53 46 S 140 54 15 E 4 89611 S 140 90417 E 4 89611 140 90417 27 Mt Antares 3970 m 1360 63 7 6 Jul 1959 29 Mt Kubor 33 3969 Kubor Range Papua New Guinea 8 06 06 06 S 144 45 36 E 6 10167 S 144 76000 E 6 10167 144 76000 28 Mt Kubor 3969 m 580 16 3 30 Mt Elit 3960 Jayawijaya Orange Indonesia 22 03 59 34 S 139 11 09 E 3 99278 S 139 18583 E 3 99278 139 18583 29 Mt Elit 3960 m 720 36 8 31 Capella 3960 Star Mountains Papua New Guinea 9 04 59 45 S 141 04 57 E 4 99583 S 141 08250 E 4 99583 141 08250 30 Mt Capella 3960 m 670 22 6 Apr or May 1965 32 Pt 3960 3960 Jayawijaya Orange Indonesia 23 04 19 34 S 139 26 26 E 4 32611 S 139 44056 E 4 32611 139 44056 31 Pt 3960 3960 m 660 12 3 33 Angemuk 3949 Maoke Mountains Indonesia 24 03 31 30 S 138 35 31 E 3 52500 S 138 59194 E 3 52500 138 59194 32 Angemuk 3949 m 1565 70 6 34 Pt 3940 3940 Maoke Mountains Indonesia 25 03 51 12 S 137 57 52 E 3 85333 S 137 96444 E 3 85333 137 96444 33 Pt 3940 3940 m 800 24 4 35 Bondewit Yupnakabap 34 3920 Finisterre Range Papua New Guinea 10 06 00 15 S 146 29 56 E 6 00417 S 146 49889 E 6 00417 146 49889 34 Mt Yupnakabap 3920 m 820 9 3 Jan or Feb 1965 36 Tiom Mtns HP 3915 Tiom Mountains 35 Indonesia 26 03 46 01 S 138 16 01 E 3 76694 S 138 26694 E 3 76694 138 26694 35 Tiom Mtns HP 3915 m 720 34 9 37 Pt 3900 26 3900 Jayawijaya Orange Indonesia 27 04 16 35 S 139 18 58 E 4 27639 S 139 31611 E 4 27639 139 31611 36 Pt 3900 3900 m 640 14 2 38 Mt Kegeraga 3885 Kubor Range Papua New Guinea 11 06 01 48 S 144 23 23 E 6 03000 S 144 38972 E 6 03000 144 38972 37 Mt Kegeraga 3885 m 720 24 6 39 Pt 3860 Finisterre 3860 Finisterre Range Papua New Guinea 12 05 47 38 S 146 06 33 E 5 79389 S 146 10917 E 5 79389 146 10917 38 Pt 3860 Finisterre 3860 m 660 30 9 Pt 3860 Orange 3860 Jayawijaya Orange Indonesia 04 09 31 S 139 13 03 E 4 15861 S 139 21750 E 4 15861 139 21750 Pt 3860 Orange 3860 m 300 14 5 40 Papua Peak 3856 3856 Maoke Mountains Indonesia 28 03 35 10 S 138 15 35 E 3 58611 S 138 25972 E 3 58611 138 25972 39 Papua Peak 3856 3856 m 1165 19 9 41 Mt Kumbepara 36 3852 New Guinea Highlands Papua New Guinea 13 05 30 26 S 143 02 52 E 5 50722 S 143 04778 E 5 50722 143 04778 40 Mt Kumbepara 3852 m 1100 106 1 Pt 12467 3840 Jayawijaya Orange Indonesia 04 42 34 S 140 28 08 E 4 70944 S 140 46889 E 4 70944 140 46889 Pt 12467 3840 m 480 11 2 42 Pt 3820 3820 Maoke Mountains Indonesia 29 03 55 02 S 138 02 16 E 3 91722 S 138 03778 E 3 91722 138 03778 42 Pt 3820 3820 m 560 8 2 Mt Scratchley 3820 Owen Stanley Range Papua New Guinea 08 44 14 S 147 28 35 E 8 73722 S 147 47639 E 8 73722 147 47639 Mt Scratchley 3820 m 480 16 4 23 Oct 1897 37 Pt 3820 3820 Maoke Mountains Indonesia 03 50 00 S 138 24 45 E 3 83333 S 138 41250 E 3 83333 138 41250 Pt 3820 3820 m 440 14 7 43 X chain HP 3801 Maoke Mountains X chain Indonesia 31 03 32 32 S 137 49 42 E 3 54222 S 137 82833 E 3 54222 137 82833 43 X chain HP 3801 m 1120 35 5 44 Pt 3800 3800 Maoke Mountains Indonesia 32 03 34 39 S 138 02 46 E 3 57750 S 138 04611 E 3 57750 138 04611 44 Pt 3800 3800 m 600 23 4 45 Mt Kaijende 5 36 38 3798 New Guinea Highlands Papua New Guinea 15 05 28 25 S 143 11 50 E 5 47361 S 143 19722 E 5 47361 143 19722 45 Mt Kaijende 3798 m 620 15 1 46 Jumbul Ambera 3785 Maoke Mountains Indonesia 33 03 52 03 S 139 00 13 E 3 86750 S 139 00361 E 3 86750 139 00361 46 Jumbul Ambera 3785 m 1383 18 5 47 Mt Hagen 39 3778 New Guinea Highlands Papua New Guinea 14 05 44 38 S 144 02 34 E 5 74389 S 144 04278 E 5 74389 144 04278 41 Mt Hagen 3834 m 1080 29 3 July 1933 48 Z chain high point 3774 Maoke Mountains Z chain Indonesia 34 03 37 59 S 136 55 24 E 3 63306 S 136 92333 E 3 63306 136 92333 47 Z chain HP 3774 m 1354 35 2 49 Mt Undan Udon Bedego 40 3774 Bismarck Range Papua New Guinea 16 05 48 02 S 144 51 12 E 5 80056 S 144 85333 E 5 80056 144 85333 48 Mt Undan Udon Bedego 3774 m 800 13 2 50 Pt 3760 3760 Jayawijaya Orange Indonesia 35 04 41 33 S 140 30 32 E 4 69250 S 140 50889 E 4 69250 140 50889 49 Pt 3760 3760 m 560 4 5 51 Kobowre HP Wakai 41 3750 Kobowre Weyland Mts Indonesia 36 03 52 15 S 135 52 14 E 3 87083 S 135 87056 E 3 87083 135 87056 50 Kobowre HP Wakai 3750 m 2217 88 4 52 Wachter Guardian 42 3750 Jayawijaya Orange Indonesia 37 04 27 30 S 139 27 48 E 4 45833 S 139 46333 E 4 45833 139 46333 51 Wachter 3750 m 880 11 1Notes and references edit Aoraki was 3764 m high until 14 December 1991 when a massive rock ice collapse broke off 10 meters Subsequent erosion of the exposed ice cap reduced its height by a further 30 m as of November 2013 1 Charles C F M Le Roux The Mountain Papuas of New Guinea and their environment Volume 1 Leiden 1948 pp 40 amp 45 Colijn s map of the 1936 expedition Heinrich Harrer s sketch map from Ich komme aus der Steinzeit Pinguin Innsbruck 1976 ISBN 3 524 00331 1 Edward G Anderson Topographic survey and cartography in Hope Geoff S et al Editors 1976 The Equatorial Glaciers of New Guinea Results of the 1971 1973 Australian Universities Expeditions to Irian Jaya survey glaciology meteorology biology and palaeoenvironments Rotterdam A A Balkema 1976 pp 19 23 E J Brill Tijdschrift van het Koninklijk Nederlandsch Aardrijkskundig Genootschap 1913 p 180 Klein A G Kincaid J L 2008 On the disappearance of the Puncak Mandala ice cap Papua Journal of Glaciology 54 195 198 Klein A G and J L Kincaid 2006 Retreat of glaciers on Puncak Jaya Irian Jaya determined from 2000 and 2002 IKONOS satellite images J Glaciol 52 176 65 79 McDowell Robin July 1 2010 Indonesia s Last Glacier Will Melt Within Years Jakarta Globe Archived from the original on August 16 2011 Retrieved 2011 10 23 Anderson p 22 and Jean Jacques Dozy Vom hochsten Gipfel bis in die tiefste Grube Archived 2012 04 02 at the Wayback Machine Bull angew Geol 7 S 67 80 2002 Only mountains with a prominence of 500 m or more are ranked Many names are from the 1942 and 1966 American army maps and can be outdated 2 3 Most round heights are crude estimates from contour lines on Google terrain maps Based on the average of carefully measured summit heights in the region peaks are here presented to be 40 m higher than the highest encircling contour line Extracted from the Google terrain maps The prominence data were extracted from a combination of maps and Google terrain data Values for mountains with prominences over 1 500 m were copied from the peaklist org ultras website The nearest higher elevation to Puncak Jaya is on the slopes of Yulong Xueshan in China First documented ascent by Europeans Measured in 1975 at 4855 m Anderson p 21 but its exposed spire is now also higher than the neighboring melting Ngga Pulu In 1936 the snow dome of Ngga Pulu seems to have been ca 4900 m high and with that the highest summit in the Netherlands Indies and Oceania Anderson p 22 For this reason it became in 1963 the original bearer of the name Puntjak Sukarno and then Puntjak Djaja However snowmelt had lowered it to 4862 m by 1973 Anderson p 22 An alternative height of 4640 m is inconsistent with 4720 m SRTM contour lines around the summit a b On some maps and in some sources the Jayawijaya Orange range represents the eastern half of the Nassau range from the 3475 m Jila Pass at 4 5 36 S 137 40 16 E 4 09333 S 137 67111 E 4 09333 137 67111 to the Baliem gorge The original Orange range is then often considered part of the Star mountains the eastern section of the Jayawijaya range or has the name Wisnumurti Range Highest SRTM contour lines are 4680 m Probable location alternatively the highest of the three Idenburg Peaks climbed by Harrer and company in 1962 is 1 8 km to the ESE at 04 2 42 S 137 4 21 E 4 04500 S 137 07250 E 4 04500 137 07250 According to Ngga Pilimsit Indonesia Peakbagger com which site uses the published height of Ngga Pilimsit and a maximum 4160 m for the key col from Google terrain The latter s SRTM data shows a maximum of 4640 for the peak though and may be particularly off for the region a b The names of the Valentijn and Jan Pietersz Coen mountains are switched on different maps sometimes JPC sometimes Valentijn being northwest and having the highest summit of ca 4500 m a b One of multiple summits on a ridge with the same highest contour lines A mountain originally named after the son of Charles Darwin The height of Mt Ubia is usually given as 4234 m This probably was the 1910 theodolite measurement from the south coast of the top of the spectacular 1500m high south wall The true summit 2 km NE would have been out of view The first recorded ascendants reported that the local Nankina name consistently is Boising meaning Stop the fight Their GPS measurements on the top were 3751 and 4155 m while its height is indicated as 4175 m on the 1 100 000 Saidor topographic sheet based on 1973 74 aerial photography This summit is unnamed on most maps but is possibly the same as Mount Gladstone a name bestowed by Hugo Zoller to the highest summit in this range during his expedition through the Finisterre range in 1888 It appeared with this name and a height of just 11 400 feet c 3475 m on the 1942 American Army Map Mount Boising first ascent report Also Mt Salawaket or Mt Saruwaged and Sturmkoppe Mt Bangeta may alternatively refer to a 4060 m subsidiary peak at 6 16 42 S 147 03 12 E 6 27833 S 147 05333 E 6 27833 147 05333 Sometimes reported with an SRTM data incompatible 4350 m height The height of Antares always considered the highest mountain of the Sterrengebergte Star mountains has been all over the map The first ascendants underestimated it by some 300 m to be 3650 m 4 while the height of 4170 m on many maps appears 200 m too high The highest very narrow SRTM contours around the summit are 3940 m The commonly reported height of 4 360 m appears 400 m off target Bondewit and Kawam are local Nankina names for mountains roughly corresponding to the location of this mountain and ca 3950 m mountain in between it and Mt Boising Name after the Tiom pass to the south and height from J Ehlers P L Gibbard P D Hughes Quaternary Glaciations Extent and Chronology A Closer Look Elsevier Publishers Amsterdam 2011 pp 1026 1031 a b Map in RAP Expedition Kaijende Highlands 2005 report Archived 2011 09 28 at the Wayback Machine MacGregor William 1899 Despatch reporting visit inland to the western end of the Owen Stanley Range and thence across the island to the north east coast Annual Report of British New Guinea 1897 98 Appendix B Melbourne Victoria Government Printer Other sources e g Paul W Williams Arete and Pinnacle Karst of Mount Kaijende 2009 seem to indicate that the name Mount Kaijende belongs to the ca 3500 m high mountain 10 km to the east at 05 29 40 S 143 17 28 E 5 49444 S 143 29111 E 5 49444 143 29111 Many sources give a height of 3834 m for Mt Hagen but SRTM data show multiple regions on the crater rim with contour lines of 3780 m The 3774 m height is reported for Mount Bedego which could match the 3700 m contour lines at this location which more often bears the name Mount Undan or Mount Udon The highest point of the Weyland mountains for many years was held to be 3891 m but this is not borne out by maximum SRTM contours of 3720 m A pointy peak which may well be over 3750 m high despite SRTM contours of only 3700 m Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title List of highest mountains of New Guinea amp oldid 1077138094, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
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