Side-Green.Com - Jayawijaya The Highest Mountain in Indonesia - Puncak Jaya, also known as Carstensz Pyramid, being the highest point in Indonesia and Oceania. Being part of the Barisan Sudirman (mountain range in Papua). Puncak Jaya or Carstensz Pyramid is located on the island of New Guinea. With 4884 meters, it is the highest point of Indonesia and Oceania and one of the Seven Summits. It has been climbed for the first time on 13 February 1962 by Heinrich Harrer, Albert Huizenga, Russell Kippax and Philip Temple.
Jayawijaya mountain is named for the mountain range that extends lengthwise in the center of the province of West Papua and Papua (Indonesia) to Papua New Guinea on the island Newguinea. Before the unification of West Papua to Indonesia, the mountain known as the Orange Mountains.
Rows of Mountains which have some of the highest peak in Indonesia is formed by removal of the sea floor thousands of years ago. Although located at an altitude of 4,884 m above sea level, fossilized sea shells, for example, can be seen in limestone and clastic rocks contained in Jayawijaya Mountains. Therefore, in addition to being a paradise of the climbers, Jayawijaya Mountains also be a geologist's paradise world.
As the highest mountain in Oceania, Puncak Jaya in the list of 7 Summits, or 7 Peak. Many climbers who tried to conquer the Puncak Jaya, but not all of them ended successfully.
Jayawijaya mountain is also the only mountain and mountain in Indonesia, which has a peak covered with eternal snow. Although not all of the peaks of the cluster Jayawijaya Mountains that has snow. Snow is owned by several peaks even now lost due to changes in global weather.
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