The Cyclops Mountains ( id, Pegunungan Cycloop) are located to the west of

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in Papua,

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, and north of Lake Sentani. In Papua, it is also known as Dafonsoro or Dabonsolo mountain, and is the namesake for

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club Persidafon.

Geography

The highest point is Gunung Ifar at or .

History

The Cyclops Mountains were given this name by

Louis de Bougainville Louis-Antoine, Comte de Bougainville (, , ; 12 November 1729 – August 1811) was a French admiral and explorer. A contemporary of the British explorer James Cook, he took part in the Seven Years' War in North America and the American Revoluti ...

, who saw them from a distance while sailing along the north coast of New Guinea. In the 1930s

Evelyn Cheesman Lucy Evelyn Cheesman (8 October 1881 – 15 April 1969) was a British entomologist and traveller. Between 1924 and 1952, Cheesman went on 8 solo expeditions in the South Pacific, and collected over 70,000 specimens, which she accompanied with ...

spent time in this area studying the insect fauna.

Ecology

The portions of the range above 1,000 meters are part of the

Northern New Guinea montane rain forests The Northern New Guinea montane rain forests is a tropical moist forest ecoregion in northern New Guinea. The ecoregion covers several separate mountain ranges lying north of New Guinea's Central Range and south of the Pacific Ocean. Geogra ...

ecoregion An ecoregion (ecological region) or ecozone (ecological zone) is an ecologically and geographically defined area that is smaller than a bioregion, which in turn is smaller than a biogeographic realm. Ecoregions cover relatively large areas of l ...

. The lower slopes and surrounding lowlands are in the

Northern New Guinea lowland rain and freshwater swamp forests The Northern New Guinea lowland rain and freshwater swamp forests is a tropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion of northern New Guinea. Setting The Northern New Guinea lowland rain and freshwater swamp forests extend across the northern lowl ...

ecoregion. The

Cyclops long-beaked echidna Sir David's long-beaked echidna (''Zaglossus attenboroughi''), also known as Attenborough's long-beaked echidna or the Cyclops long-beaked echidna, is one of the three species from the genus ''Zaglossus'' that occurs in New Guinea. It is named in ...

(''Zaglossus attenboroughi)'' was discovered living in the mountains. It is named for naturalist

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Cyclops Mountains Nature Reserve

The Cyclops Mountains were designated as a nature reserve in 1978/1995.

Eponyms

A species of lizard, ''

Emoia cyclops ''Emoia cyclops'', also known commonly as the Cyclops emo skink and Cyclop's skink, is a species of lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to Indonesia. Etymology The specific name, ''cyclops'', is a reference to the type loc ...

'' (Cyclops emo skink), is named for the Cyclops Mountains. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . ("Cyclops", p. 63).

Notes

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