Julianatop is the highest mountain in
Suriname
Suriname (; srn, Sranankondre or ), officially the Republic of Suriname ( nl, Republiek Suriname , srn, Ripolik fu Sranan), is a country on the northeastern Atlantic coast of South America. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north ...
at . It is located in the
Sipaliwini District
Sipaliwini is the largest district of Suriname, located in the south. Sipaliwini is the only district that does not have a regional capital, as it is directly administered by the national government in Paramaribo.
History
Sipaliwini was created i ...
. The mountain is named after
Juliana of the Netherlands
Juliana (; Juliana Louise Emma Marie Wilhelmina; 30 April 1909 – 20 March 2004) was Queen of the Netherlands from 1948 until her abdication in 1980.
Juliana was the only child of Queen Wilhelmina and Prince Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Sh ...
. The
Amerindian
The Indigenous peoples of the Americas are the inhabitants of the Americas before the arrival of the European settlers in the 15th century, and the ethnic groups who now identify themselves with those peoples.
Many Indigenous peoples of the Am ...
name of the mountain is Ipinumin ().
The mountain was supposedly climbed by the Amerindian
John Tawjoeram during the 1963 Schultz expedition, however there was no trace of John.
On 16 September 2006, an expedition set out to climb the mountain and planted the
Surinamese flag on the top.
References
External links
Julianatop at PeakbaggerView of Julianatopfro
this website english translation
Inselbergs of South America
Mountains of Suriname
Highest points of countries
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