Arfak Mountains
| Arfak Mountains | |
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| Highest peak | Gunung Mebo |
| location | Papua Barat , Indonesia |
| Coordinates | 1 ° 10 ′ S , 133 ° 30 ′ E |
The Arfak Mountains ( Indonesian Pegunungan Arfak ) is a mountain range in the northeast of the Vogelkop Peninsula in western New Guinea . “Arfak” simply means “inland” in the language of the Biak people who inhabit the coast.
geography
The Arfak Mountains are located in the Indonesian province of Papua Barat ( German West Papua ) on the Pacific . In the northwest, the Kebar valley separates the Arfak Mountains from the Tamrau Mountains .
The Mebo (formerly Vogelkop ) is at 2939 m the highest mountain on the peninsula. At 2926 m , the Umsini is only slightly smaller. Other mountains are the Tumyubou ( 2480 m ) and the Humeibo ( 2820 m ) near the provincial capital Manokwari . There are two large lakes in the east of the mountains: the Danau Gigi and the Danau Gita .
fauna
There are over 320 species of birds in the region, at least 14 of which are unique to this region. An endemic of the mountain range is the long-tailed Paradigalla , one of the typical New Guinea birds of paradise . The same applies to other animals, such as the Schlegel's Ringbeutler .
Residents
The indigenous population includes the Hattam , Meyah and Sougb ethnic groups .
history
Various researchers traveled to the region, for example the Italian Odoardo Beccari in 1875 and shortly before his compatriot Luigi Maria d'Albertis . As early as 1858, the German Hermann von Rosenberg came to the coast of the mountains on the steamship Etna . In 1910, a British expedition commissioned by George Hamilton Kenrick brought home hundreds of previously unknown butterfly species, such as the endemic Ornithoptera rothschildi . In 1913 the British botanist Lilian Suzette Gibbs researched the vegetation of the Arfak Mountains.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Papua Expeditions: Arfak Mountains , accessed June 19, 2017.
- ↑ a b The Great World Atlas, Millenium House, 2009, ISBN 978-1-921209-31-4 .
- ↑ Handbook of the Birds of the World on the Langschwanaz Paradigalla , accessed on July 9, 2017