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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 3,750 m (12,300 ft) high and have a topographic prominence of 500 m (1,600 ft) 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 ...
Puncak Jaya region icecap, Papua Puncak Jaya (Indonesian: [ˈpuntʃak ˈdʒaja]; literally "Glorious Peak", Amungme: Nemangkawi Ninggok) [2] or Carstensz Pyramid (/ ˈ k ɑːr s t ən s /, Indonesian: Piramida Carstensz, Dutch: Carstenszpiramide) on the island of New Guinea, with an elevation of 4,884 m (16,024 ft), is the highest mountain peak of an island on Earth, and the highest peak in ...
Island Highest point Height Area (km 2) average slope [1] Country or region Other countries or territories on island 1: New Guinea: Puncak Jaya: 4884 m 16,024 ft 785753: 0.00977 Central Papua Indonesia Papua New Guinea: 2: Hawaiʻi: Mauna Kea: 4207 m 13,802 ft 10430: 0.073 Hawaiʻi United States: 3: Borneo: Mount Kinabalu: 4095 m 13,435 ft ...
Mount Wilhelm (German: Wilhelmsberg) is the highest mountain in Papua New Guinea at 4,509 metres (14,793 ft). It is part of the Bismarck Range and the peak is the point where three provinces, Chimbu, Jiwaka and Madang, meet. The peak is also known as Enduwa Kombuglu, or Kombugl'o Dimbin, in the local Kuman language. [2]
Topography of Oceania. This page lists the 'highest natural elevation of each sovereign state on the continent of Oceania defined physiographically.States sometimes associated with Oceania politically and culturally, but not geographically part of Oceania, are not included in this list of physical features.
While Mt McClintock (3,490 m (11,450 ft)) is located within the claimed Australian Antarctic Territory and is also claimed as Australia's highest peak, it is again not in Oceania. [14] If excluding the island of New Guinea, then Aoraki / Mount Cook on the South Island of New Zealand is the highest mountain in Australasia at 3,724 m (12,218 ft).
Ngga Pulu is summit on the north rim of Mount Carstensz in the western part of the island of New Guinea rising 4,862 metres (15,951 ft). Trigonometric measurements showed that Ngga Pulu was (and had been for many centuries before) the highest mountain of New Guinea and also the highest summit of the Australia-New Guinea continent.
Mount Giluwe is the second highest mountain in Papua New Guinea at 4,367 metres (14,327 ft) (Mount Wilhelm being the highest), and the fifth highest peak on the island of New Guinea. It is located in the Southern Highlands province and is an old shield volcano with vast alpine grasslands .