Hagen Mountains (New Guinea)
| Hagen Mountains | ||
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| Highest peak | Hagensberg ( 3778 m ) | |
| location | Papua New Guinea | |
| part of | New Guinea Island | |
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| Coordinates | 5 ° 44 ′ S , 144 ° 3 ′ E | |
The Hagengebirge ( English Hagen Mountains ) is a more than 3000 m high mountains in Papua New Guinea , located in the northeast of the island New Guinea . The mountains are located in the area of the former German colony of German New Guinea in Kaiser-Wilhelms-Land , west parallel to the central Ramu valley . It was discovered in 1896 and named after Curt von Hagen , the then general director of the New Guinea Company and governor of German New Guinea. Curt von Hagen's father was the royal adjutant and lieutenant general Heinrich von Hagen; Curt von Hagen was thus a great grandson of the polymath and Kant friend Karl Gottfried Hagen from Königsberg.
The Hagengebirge is a relatively compact mountain range of volcanic origin. Its highest peak is the 3778 m high Hagensberg (Mount Hagen), after which the city of Mount Hagen , located about 25 kilometers south-east, is named.
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