List of highest mountains of 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.
This list of highest mountains of New Guinea shows all mountains on the island of
Gunung Kerinci on Sumatra (#29 in Indonesia), and the 16 highest mountains of Papua New Guinea
.
Limited topographical data
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 Expedition using barometric and boiling point measurements on the summit of Ngga Pulu also derived an elevation of 5,030 m (16,503 ft).[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 (387 and 417 ft) too high. Nevertheless, the 5,030 m (16,503 ft) height is still prevalent in most atlases and maps.[5]
Disappearing and disappeared glaciers of the Snowy Mountains
All mountains in
Carstensz Pyramid 3 km (1.9 mi) to its south-west.[10]
The list
The list contains some unranked summits that are either of general interest, may show topographic prominences of >500 m (1,600 ft) given better data, or are more than 12 km (7.5 mi) isolated from any higher point.
Notes and references
- ^ Aoraki was 3,764 m (12,349 ft) high until 14 December 1991, when a massive rock/ice collapse broke off 10 m (33 ft). Subsequent erosion of the exposed ice cap reduced its height by a further 30 m (98 ft) as of November 2013. University of Otago (16 January 2014). "Otago-led study revises height of Aoraki/Mt Cook". Archived from the original on 17 June 2023. Retrieved 17 June 2023.
- ^ Le Roux, Charles C.F.M. (1948). De Bergpapoea's Van Niew-Guinea En Hun Woongebied I [Charles C.F.M. Le Roux, The Mountain Papuas of New Guinea and their environment, Volume 1] (PDF) (in Dutch). Lieden: E. J. Brill. pp. 40 & 45. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 September 2021. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
- ^ Colijn's map of the 1936 expedition.
- 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.
- ISSN 0022-1430.
- ISSN 0022-1430.
- ^ 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 höchsten 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 (1,600 ft) or more are ranked.
- ^ Many names are from the 1942 and 1966 American army maps and can be outdated [1] [2].
- ^ 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 (130 ft) 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 (4,900 ft) were copied from the peaklist.org ultras website.
- Yulong Xueshanin China.
- ^ First documented ascent by Europeans.
- ^ Measured in 1975 at 4,885 m (16,027 ft) (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. 4,900 m (16,100 ft) 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 4,862 m (15,951 ft) by 1973 (Anderson, p. 22).
- ^ An alternative height of 4,640 m (15,220 ft) is inconsistent with 4,720 m (15,490 ft) 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 3,475 m (11,401 ft) Jila Pass at 4°5′36″S 137°40′16″E / 4.09333°S 137.67111°E 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 4,680 m (15,350 ft).
- ^ Probable location; alternatively the highest of the three Idenburg Peaks, climbed by Harrer and company in 1962, is 1.8 km (1.1 mi) to the ESE at 04°2′42″S 137°4′21″E / 4.04500°S 137.07250°E.
- ^ According to "Ngga Pilimsit, Indonesia". Peakbagger.com., which site uses the published height of Ngga Pilimsit and a maximum 4,160 m (13,650 ft) for the key col from Google terrain. The latter's SRTM data shows a maximum of 4,640 m (15,220 ft) 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. 4,500 m (14,800 ft).
- ^ 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 4,234 m (13,891 ft). This probably was the 1910 theodolite measurement from the south coast of the top of the spectacular, 1,500 m-high (4,900 ft) south wall. The true summit 2 km (1.2 mi) 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 3,751 and 4,155 m (12,306 and 13,632 ft), while its height is indicated as 4,175 m (13,698 ft) 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.
- ^ Mount Boising first ascent report.
- ^ Also Mt Salawaket or Mt Saruwaged and Sturmkoppe. Mt Bangeta may alternatively refer to a 4,060 m (13,320 ft) subsidiary peak at 6°16′42″S 147°03′12″E / 6.27833°S 147.05333°E.
- ^ Sometimes reported with an SRTM-data incompatible 4,350 m (14,270 ft) 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 (980 ft) to be 3,650 m (11,980 ft) [3] while the height of 4,170 m (13,680 ft) on many maps appears 200 m (660 ft) too high. The highest (very narrow) SRTM-contours around the summit are 3,940 m (12,927 ft).
- ^ The commonly reported height of 4,360 m (14,304 ft) appears 400 m (1,300 ft) off target.
- ^ Bondewit and Kawam are local, Nankina names for mountains roughly corresponding to the location of this mountain and ca 3,950 m (12,960 ft) 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, Arête and Pinnacle Karst of Mount Kaijende, 2009) seem to indicate that the name "Mount Kaijende" belongs to the ca. 3,500 m-high (11,500 ft) mountain 10 km (6 mi) to the east at 05°29′40″S 143°17′28″E / 5.49444°S 143.29111°E.
- ^ Many sources give a height of 3,834 m (12,579 ft) for Mt Hagen, but SRTM data show multiple regions on the crater rim with contour lines of 3,780 m (12,402 ft).
- ^ The 3,774 m (12,382 ft) height is reported for Mount Bedego, which could match the 3,700 m (12,139 ft) 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 3,891 m (12,766 ft), but this is not borne out by maximum SRTM-contours of 3,720 m (12,205 ft).
- ^ A pointy peak which may well be over 3,750 m (12,300 ft) high despite SRTM-contours of only 3,700 m (12,139 ft).
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