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

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. In Papua, it is also known as Dafonsoro or Dabonsolo mountain, and is the namesake for football club

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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 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

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 o ...

. 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 low ...

ecoregion. The Cyclops long-beaked echidna (''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'' (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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