The Käyser Mountains () is a mountain range in the
Sipaliwini District
Sipaliwini is the largest Districts of Suriname, 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. Sipaliwini ...
of
Suriname
Suriname, officially the Republic of Suriname, is a country in northern South America, also considered as part of the Caribbean and the West Indies. It is a developing country with a Human Development Index, high level of human development; i ...
. It is named after
Conrad Carel Käyser
Conrad Carel Käyser (5 November 1876 – 26 April 1939) was a Dutch naval officer, explorer and mountaineer. He led two expeditions in Suriname, among which the expedition at the end of the 1930s to mark the Brazilian–Surinamese border.
Bio ...
. The
Käyser Airstrip was built in 1960 at the foot of the mountains as part of
Operation Grasshopper
Operation Grasshopper was a project to look for natural resources in Suriname from the air. For this project, seven airstrips were constructed in the interior of Suriname from 1959 onward.
The project was the brainchild of the Minister of Develop ...
to access the interior of Suriname.
References
Mountain ranges of Suriname
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