Finisterre Mountains

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Finisterre Mountains
Highest peak Mount Boising ( 4120  m )
location Papua New Guinea
Finisterre Mountains (Papua New Guinea)
Finisterre Mountains
Coordinates 5 ° 48 ′  S , 146 ° 6 ′  E Coordinates: 5 ° 48 ′  S , 146 ° 6 ′  E
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The Finisterre Mountains , called Finisterre Range in the English-speaking world , are a coastal mountain range in the north-east of Papua New Guinea in the densely populated Morobe Province .

The name of the Finisterre Mountains goes back to the French general Jules Dumont d'Urville , who drove along the coast in 1827 and also gave the Astrolabe Bay its name. In 1889 the German journalist and explorer Hugo Zöller reached the crest of the mountain range. The first crossing of the mountain range was made in 1907 by the Austrian Wilhelm C. Dammköhler together with O. Fröhlich, who marched from today's Lae through the Markham Valley to Astrolabe Bay.

geography

The officially unnamed highest peak of the mountain ridge is locally under the name Mount Boising known and is located at 5 ° 48 '  S , 146 ° 6'  O . Its altitude is commonly reported as 4175  m , but the SRTM data suggests an altitude of approximately 4,120 m. In the ranking of the mountains after Schartenhöhe it ranks 45th worldwide. In Papua New Guinea it is the third highest mountain after Mount Wilhelm (German: Wilhelmsberg ) and Mount Giluwe .

In addition, the Disraeliberg (also: Schopenhauerberg ) with a height of 3,350 m and the Gladstoneberg (also: Kantberg ) with a height of 3,175 m are other striking mountain peaks.

The wildly ravaged mountain range merges into the Saruwaged Range in the east and together with it forms a natural barrier between the valleys of the Ramu and Markham rivers in the south to the Maclay coast and the Vitiaz Strait in the north. The Ramu itself is also one of the many rivers that have their source in the Finisterre Mountains. In addition, the Yupno flows through the mountains, after which the Yupno group that lives here is also named. Large parts of the mountains are covered by the rainforest.

During the Second World War, in the years 1943 and 1944, as part of the Finistere Range Campaign in the Finisterre mountain range, some heavy skirmishes between the Australian troops and the associations of the Japanese Empire took place, including the battles on Shaggy Ridge .

According to the German Colonial Lexicon, the following types of rock have been found in the Finisterre Mountains :

fauna

For avifauna of Finisterre Mountains include the three-speed Laubenvogel , the Blue breast paradise Elster and Wahnesparadiesvogel .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jürg Wassmann, Farewell to the Past (p. 13), Dietrich Reimer Verlag Berlin, ISBN 3-496-00496-7
  2. ↑ Jürg Wassmann, Farewell to the Past (p. 11), Dietrich Reimer Verlag Berlin, ISBN 3-496-00496-7

literature

  • Heiner Wesemann: Papua New Guinea, Culture - Landscape . In: DuMont documents . DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 1985, ISBN 3-7701-1322-5 , p. 214 .

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