Kayser Mountains
| Kayser Mountains | ||
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| Highest peak | without name 861 m | |
| location | Sipaliwini , Suriname | |
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| Coordinates | 3 ° 1 ′ N , 56 ° 41 ′ W | |
The Kayser Mountains are about 80 to 90 km long, in the southwest of Suriname , in the Sipaliwini district .
The mountain range is south of the Lucie River. The mountains running from southeast to northwest show a higher course in the south with a maximum of 783 m. It falls to the northeast to a hilly landscape, to reach the maximum height of 861 m a little further north from the middle of the mountains. Then it drops again to a hilly landscape to reach a height of 675 m again to the northwest. The east and north slopes drain into the Zuid and Lucie rivers and the west and south slopes into the Coeroeni river .
Namesake
The mountains are named after the Dutch naval officer Conrad Carel Käyser (1876–1939). In 1910 he took part in a Corantijn expedition led by Johan Eilerts de Haan. In 1935 he was appointed Vice Admiral a. D. charged by the Dutch government to lead a commission to determine the border between Suriname and Brazil . At the same time he was the leader of expeditions that made a total of three river trips to the border area between 1935 and 1938.
literature
- CFA Bruijning and J. Voorhoeve (main editors): Encyclopedie van Suriname . Elsevier , Amsterdam and Brussel 1977, ISBN 90-10-01842-3 , p. 195 u. 328.