Wilhelminagebirge (Suriname)
| Wilhelminagebirge | ||
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| Highest peak | Julianatop ( 1280 m ) | |
| location | Sipaliwini , Suriname | |
| part of | Central Suriname Nature Reserve | |
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| Coordinates | 3 ° 45 ′ N , 56 ° 30 ′ W | |
The Wilhelminagebirge is an approx. 100 km long mountain range running from east to west in the district of Sipaliwini in Suriname .
It is a centrally located mountain range, south of the 4th parallel . Of these, the Bakhuis Mountains , the Emmakette and the Van-Asch-van-Wijck Mountains form the northern and the Eilerts-de-Haan Mountains the southern foothills. The mountain range has thirteen peaks over 1,000 m. Of all of them, the Julianatop is the highest and therefore also the highest point in the country at 1,280 m.
The Wilhelminagebirge lies on the border of two plains: the river area of the Coppename in the north and the river area of the Corantijn , here: the Lucie and Kabalebo rivers in the south. Due to the greater distance between the southern lowlands and the Atlantic , they are on average 100–125 m higher than the northern lowlands. The meeting points often form a steep edge that is severely cut by the upper reaches of the Corantijn.
The first scientific investigations of the mountains were undertaken by the expedition of Eilerts de Haan in 1908, the Corantijn expedition by Eilerts de Haan and Kayser 1910–1911 and the Wilhelminagebirge expedition by Stahel and Ijzerman in 1926. In the 1960s and 1970s, the Centraal Bureau Luchtkartering (Central Office for Aerial Mapping) and the Geological Mijnbouwkundige Dienst (Geological and Mining Service) were responsible for the research.
The mountains are named after Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands .
literature
- CFA Bruijning and J. Voorhoeve (main editors): Encyclopedie van Suriname . Elsevier , Amsterdam a. Brussel 1977, ISBN 90-10-01842-3 , pp. 677-678.