Tirpitz Mountains
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| location | Lavongai ( Papua New Guinea ) | |
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| Coordinates | 2 ° 31 ′ S , 150 ° 15 ′ E | |
The Tirpitz Mountains are a mountain range on Lavongai Island , Papua New Guinea . It extends in an east-west direction and has a series of steep mountain tops and ridges. Significant elevations of the mountains are Mount Deimling and the very steep Mount Suilou (566 m; also Bati Suilaua or Stoschberg ), which can be seen from afar .
The Tirpitz Mountains were named after the German Secretary of State for the Navy and Grand Admiral Alfred Freiherr von Tirpitz .
Web links
The Tirpitz Mountains in the German Colonial Lexicon (1920) Volume 3, p. 496 on uni-frankfurt.de