Schrader Mountains
| Schrader Mountains | ||
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 Schrader Mountains |
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| Highest peak | Mount Aiome ( 1606 m ) | |
| location | Papua New Guinea | |
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| Coordinates | 5 ° 9 ′ S , 144 ° 27 ′ E | |
The Schrader Mountains are a mountain range in the northeast of the Enga Province in Papua New Guinea , northeast of the Bismarck Mountains .
The highest point of the Schrader Mountains is Mount Aiome with a height of 1606 m. It is named after the Ayom people who live there (previously sometimes written Aiome ).
The west of the mountain range is inhabited by the Hagahai people.
literature
- Martin Gusinde : The Ayom pygmies in New Guinea. A research report . In: Anthropos. International Journal of Ethnology and Linguistics , ISSN 0003-5572 , vol. 53 (1958), pp. 497-574.
- Martin Gusinde: Somatological investigation of the pygmies in the Schrader Mountains of New Guinea . In: Year Book of the American Philosophical Society , 1957, pp. 270-274.
- John Burton (ed.): The University of Papua New Guinea Schrader mountains project (= Research in Melanesia , No. 9/10). University of Papua New Guinea. Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Port Moresby 1988.
Web links
- Tony de Beer: The "de Beer Selection" (1969-1984). Photos from the Schrader Mountains
- University of Texas at Austin, map
Individual evidence
- ↑ index mundi, Mount Aiome
- ↑ Martin Gusinde: The Ayom pygmies on New Guinea. A research report . In: Anthropos , vol. 53 (1958), pp. 497-574, here p. 503.
- ↑ Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research: Population studies ( Memento of the original from August 28, 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. (English)
