Kraetkegebirge
| Kraetkegebirge | ||
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| Highest peak | Mount Tabletop ( 3686 m ) | |
| location | Papua New Guinea | |
| part of | New Guinea | |
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| Coordinates | 6 ° 30 ′ S , 145 ° 50 ′ E | |
The Kraetkegebirge (also: Krätkegebirge , English Kratke Range ) is a mountain range in the Eastern Highlands province in Papua New Guinea .
The mountain range is the headwaters of the Aziana and Yaiga rivers and the Ramu , which drains the area towards the northwest.
The Kratke Range was established in November 1889 in the then the German colony of German New Guinea belonging to Kaiser Wilhelm Country of Hugo Zöller launch an expedition into the Finisterre Range discovered and described as another, situated inland and 3000 to 3500 m high mountain. Reinhold Kraetke was governor of New Guinea at that time .
The Kraetkegebirge runs south of the Finisterre Mountains on the other side of the Markham River and joins the Bismarck Mountains to the east . The Kraetkegebirge was only explored in more detail after the German colonial era at the beginning of the 1920s.
One of the peaks in the Kraetkegebirge was called Zöllerberg . The highest peak is Mount Tabletop with a height of 3,686 m.
The mountains are of volcanic origin and overgrown by tropical mountain rainforest . Alpine grassland predominates above 3,000 m. Various endemic bird species live in the mountains , including the olive parrot .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Krätke Mountains in Meyers-Konversationslexikon 1885 on retrobibliothek.de , accessed November 13, 2007
- ↑ Kratke Range in German colonial lexicon (1920), Volume II, page 371 accessed 12 November, 2007
- ↑ a b Overview of the Eastern Highlands Province, on easternhighlands.com ( Memento of the original from July 4, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 12, 2007
- ↑ List of endemic bird species on birdlife.org , accessed November 12, 2007
