Puncak Mandala or Mandala Peak (until 1963 Julianatop or Juliana Peak) is a mountain located in
Highland Papua
Highland Papua ( id, Papua Pegunungan) is a province of Indonesia, which roughly follows the borders of Papuan customary region of Lano-Pago, shortened to La Pago. It covers an area of and had a population of 1,408,641 according to the official es ...
, Indonesia. At , it is the highest point of the
Jayawijaya (Orange) Range and included in
Seven Second Summits
The Seven Second Summits are the second-highest mountains of each of the seven continents. All of these mountain peaks are separate peaks rather than a sub-peak of the continents' high point. The Seven Second Summits are considered by many mountain ...
. Following
Mount Carstensz
Puncak Jaya (; literally "Glorious Peak") or Carstensz Pyramid, Mount Jayawijaya or Mount Carstensz () on the island of New Guinea, with an elevation of , is the highest mountain peak of an island on Earth. The mountain is located in the Sud ...
(4884 m) 350 km to the west, Mandala is the second highest freestanding mountain of
Oceania
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,
Australasia
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,
New Guinea
New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; id, Papua, or , historically ) is the world's second-largest island with an area of . Located in Oceania in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, the island is separated from Australia by the wide Torres ...
and
Indonesia
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.
List of highest mountains in Indonesia
at the Gunung Baggingsite.
Geology
Mandala is one of the three high massif
In geology, a massif ( or ) is a section of a planet's crust that is demarcated by faults or flexures. In the movement of the crust, a massif tends to retain its internal structure while being displaced as a whole. The term also refers to a ...
s of Western New Guinea, together with the Carstensz and Trikora complexes. This peak used to have an ice cap, but it was last seen in 1989 and by 2003 it was totally gone. Based on the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission data, this peak is likely higher than Puncak Trikora
Puncak Trikora, until 1963 Wilhelmina Peak, is a 4,730 or mountain in the Highland Papua province of Indonesia on New Guinea. It lies in the eastern part of the Sudirman (Nassau) Range of the Maoke Mountains.
Behind Puncak Jaya (Carstensz Pyr ...
, which lost its icecap in about 1960.
Ascents
Climbers from the Dutch 1959 expedition to the Star Mountains
The Star Mountains ( Dutch ( colonial)'': Sterrengebergte''; Indonesian'': Pegunungan Bintang'') are a mountain range in western Papua New Guinea and the eastern end of Highland Papua, Indonesia, stretching from the eastern end of Indonesia t ...
reached the peak of Puncak Mandala on 9 September.
See also
*List of Southeast Asian mountains
The following is a list of some of the mountains of Southeast Asia.
List of highest mountains
See also
*List of highest mountains
*List of highest mountains of New Guinea
*List of islands by highest point
*List of ribus (summits in Indonesia w ...
*List of Ultras of Malay Archipelago
This is a list of ultra prominent peaks (with topographic prominence greater than 1,500 metres) in the Malay Archipelago, a group of over 25,000 islands which includes Brunei, Singapore, East Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines and East Timor. How ...
*List of highest mountains of New Guinea
This list of highest mountains of New Guinea shows all mountains on the island of New Guinea that are at least 3750 m high and have a topographic prominence of 500 m or more. These 50 peaks are also the highest mountains of Australasi ...
References
Further reading
"Puncak Mandala"
at GunungBagging.com
Mountains of Western New Guinea
Seven Second Summits
Four-thousanders of New Guinea
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