Puncak Jaya, the Glossary

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1. 69 relations: Agence France-Presse, American Management Association, Amung people, Andes, Anton Colijn, Apo Kayan people, Australia (continent), Australian Plate, Borneo, Brill Publishers, Carstensz East, Carstensz expedition, Carstensz Glacier, Central Papua, Columbia University Press, Dayak people, De-Sukarnoization, Dutch Republic, East Northwall Firn, Eight Summits, Equator, Europe, Geological Society of America, Glacier, Grasberg mine, Heinrich Harrer, Hendrikus Albertus Lorentz, Himalayas, Indonesia, Indonesian language, Jakarta Globe, Jan Carstenszoon, Jean Jacques Dozy, Kenyah people, Limestone, List of elevation extremes by country, List of highest mountains of New Guinea, List of highest points of Oceanian countries, List of islands by highest point, List of largest gold mines by production, List of mountain peaks by prominence, List of Southeast Asian mountains, Lonnie Thompson, Lorentz National Park, Maoke Mountains, Mimika Regency, Miocene, Mountaineering, New Guinea, New Guinea Highlands, ... Expand index (19 more) »

2. Four-thousanders of New Guinea
3. Mountains of Western New Guinea
4. Seven Summits

Agence France-Presse

Agence France-Presse (AFP) is a French international news agency headquartered in Paris, France.

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American Management Association

The American Management Association (AMA) is an American non-profit educational membership organization for the promotion of management, based in New York City.

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Amung people

The Amung (also known as Amungme, Amungm, Amui, Amuy, Hamung, or Uhunduni) people are a group of about 17,700 people living in the highlands of the Central Papua province of Indonesia.

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Andes

The Andes, Andes Mountains or Andean Mountain Range are the longest continental mountain range in the world, forming a continuous highland along the western edge of South America.

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Anton Colijn

Antonie Hendrikus Colijn (13 April 1894 in Ambarawa – 11 March 1945 in Muntok) was a Dutch amateur mountaineer who in 1936 led the Carstensz Expedition, being the first to climb the Carstenszgebergte in New Guinea.

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Apo Kayan people

The Apo Kayan people are one of the Dayak people groups that are spread throughout Sarawak of Malaysia, North Kalimantan and North Kalimantan of Indonesia.

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Australia (continent)

The continent of Australia, sometimes known in technical contexts by the names Sahul, Australia-New Guinea, Australinea, Oceania, or Meganesia to distinguish it from the country of Australia, is located within the Southern and Eastern hemispheres.

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Australian Plate

The Australian Plate is a major tectonic plate in the eastern and, largely, southern hemispheres.

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Borneo

Borneo (also known as Kalimantan in the Indonesian language) is the third-largest island in the world, with an area of.

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Brill Publishers

Brill Academic Publishers, also known as E. J. Brill, Koninklijke Brill, Brill, is a Dutch international academic publisher of books and journals.

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Carstensz East

Carstensz East (or East Carstensz Top, Carstensz Oriental, Carstensz Timor) is a sub peak of Puncak Jaya (or Carstensz Pyramid). Puncak Jaya and Carstensz East are four-thousanders of New Guinea and mountains of Western New Guinea.

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Carstensz expedition

The Carstensz expedition was made in 1936 by Anton Colijn, Jean Jacques Dozy and Frits Wissel.

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Carstensz Glacier

The Carstensz Glacier is near the peak of Puncak Jaya (sometimes called Mount Carstensz or the Carstensz Pyramid) which is a mountain in the Sudirman Range of the island of New Guinea, territorially the eastern highlands of Central Papua, Indonesia.

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Central Papua

Central Papua, officially the Central Papua Province (Provinsi Papua Tengah) is an Indonesian province located in the central region of Western New Guinea.

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Columbia University Press

Columbia University Press is a university press based in New York City, and affiliated with Columbia University.

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Dayak people

The Dayak (older spelling: Dajak) or Dyak or Dayuh are one of the native groups of Borneo.

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De-Sukarnoization

De-Sukarnoization, also spelled de-Soekarnoization, was a purging policy that existed in Indonesia from the transition to the New Order in 1966 up to the beginning of the Reformation era in 1998, in which President Suharto intended to defame his predecessor Sukarno as well as lessen his presence and downplay his role in Indonesian history.

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Dutch Republic

The United Provinces of the Netherlands, officially the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) and commonly referred to in historiography as the Dutch Republic, was a confederation that existed from 1579 until the Batavian Revolution in 1795.

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East Northwall Firn

The East Northwall Firn was a glacier on Mount Carstensz in the Sudirman Range on the island of New Guinea in Central Papua province, Indonesia.

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Eight Summits

The Eight Summits is the collective name for the eight highest mountain peaks on each of the seven continents (Australia has two entries). Puncak Jaya and eight Summits are seven Summits.

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Equator

The equator is a circle of latitude that divides a spheroid, such as Earth, into the Northern and Southern hemispheres.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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Geological Society of America

The Geological Society of America (GSA) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement of the geosciences.

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Glacier

A glacier is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving downhill under its own weight.

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Grasberg mine

The Grasberg mine has one of the largest reserves of gold and copper in the world.

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Heinrich Harrer

Heinrich Harrer (6 July 1912 – 7 January 2006) was an Austrian SS sergeant, mountaineer, explorer, writer, sportsman, and geographer.

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Hendrikus Albertus Lorentz

Hendrikus Albertus Lorentz (18 September 1871 – 2 September 1944) was a Dutch explorer in New Guinea and diplomat in South Africa.

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Himalayas

The Himalayas, or Himalaya.

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Indonesia

Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans.

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Indonesian language

Indonesian is the official and national language of Indonesia.

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Jakarta Globe

The Jakarta Globe is a daily online English-language newspaper in Indonesia, launched in November 2008.

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Jan Carstenszoon

Jan Carstenszoon or more commonly Jan Carstensz was a 17th-century Dutch explorer.

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Jean Jacques Dozy

Jean Jacques Dozy (18 June 1908, in Rotterdam – 1 November 2004, in The Hague) was a Dutch geologist.

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Kenyah people

The Kenyah people are an indigenous, Austronesian-speaking people of Borneo, living in interior North and East Kalimantan, Indonesia and Sarawak, Malaysia.

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Limestone

Limestone (calcium carbonate) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime.

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List of elevation extremes by country

The following sortable table lists land surface elevation extremes by country or dependent territory.

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List of highest mountains of New Guinea

This list of highest mountains of New Guinea shows all mountains on the island of New Guinea that are at least high and have a topographic prominence of or more. Puncak Jaya and list of highest mountains of New Guinea are mountains of Western New Guinea.

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List of highest points of Oceanian countries

This page lists the 'highest natural elevation of each sovereign state on the continent of Oceania defined physiographically.

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List of islands by highest point

This is a list of islands in the world ordered by their highest point; it lists islands with peaks by elevation.

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List of largest gold mines by production

This is a list of the largest gold mines by 2022 annual production, measured in troy ounces.

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List of mountain peaks by prominence

This is a list of mountain peaks ordered by their topographic prominence.

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List of Southeast Asian mountains

The following is a list of some of the mountains of Southeast Asia.

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Lonnie Thompson

Lonnie Thompson (born July 1, 1948), is an American paleoclimatologist and university professor in the School of Earth Sciences at Ohio State University.

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Lorentz National Park

Lorentz National Park is an Indonesian national park located in the provinces of Central Papua, Highland Papua and South Papua, in the southwest of western New Guinea.

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Maoke Mountains

The Maoke Mountains is a mountain range in the province of Central Papua and Highland Papua.

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Mimika Regency

Mimika Regency is one of the regencies (kabupaten) in the Indonesian province of Central Papua.

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Miocene

The Miocene is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma).

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Mountaineering

Mountaineering, mountain climbing, or alpinism is a set of outdoor activities that involves ascending mountains.

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New Guinea

New Guinea (Hiri Motu: Niu Gini; Papua, fossilized Nugini, or historically Irian) is the world's second-largest island, with an area of.

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New Guinea Highlands

The New Guinea Highlands, also known as the Central Range or Central Cordillera, is a long chain of mountain ranges on the island of New Guinea, including the island's tallest peak, Puncak Jaya, Indonesia,, the highest mountain in Oceania. Puncak Jaya and New Guinea Highlands are mountains of Western New Guinea.

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Ngga Pulu

Ngga Pulu is a summit on the north rim of Mount Carstensz in the western part of the island of New Guinea rising. Puncak Jaya and Ngga Pulu are four-thousanders of New Guinea.

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Pacific Plate

The Pacific Plate is an oceanic tectonic plate that lies beneath the Pacific Ocean.

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Philip Temple

Robert Philip Temple (born 1939 in Yorkshire, England) is a Dunedin-based New Zealand author of novels, children's stories, and non-fiction.

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President of Indonesia

The president of the Republic of Indonesia (Presiden Republik Indonesia) is the head of state and head of government of the Republic of Indonesia.

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Puncak Trikora

Puncak Trikora is a 4,730 or mountain in the Highland Papua province of Indonesia on New Guinea. Puncak Jaya and Puncak Trikora are four-thousanders of New Guinea and mountains of Western New Guinea.

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Ribu

A ribu is a mountain that reaches a topographic prominence of at least.

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Seven Summits

The Seven Summits are the highest mountains on each of the seven traditional continents.

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Snow field

A snow field, snowfield or neve is an accumulation of permanent snow and ice, typically found above the snow line, normally in mountainous and glacial terrain.

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Sudirman Range

The Sudirman Range, also known as the Snow Mountains, Dugunduguoo, or Nassau Range is a mountain range in Central Papua province, Indonesia.

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Sukarno

Sukarno (born Koesno Sosrodihardjo,, 6 June 1901 – 21 June 1970) was an Indonesian statesman, orator, revolutionary, and nationalist who was the first president of Indonesia, serving from 1945 to 1967.

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Sumantri

Sumantri Peak (also spelled Soemantri or Soemantri BrodjonegoroSummitPost.org) is a sharp mountain in the western Sudirman Range (Central Papua). Puncak Jaya and Sumantri are four-thousanders of New Guinea and mountains of Western New Guinea.

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The Earth Institute

The Earth Institute is a research institute at Columbia University created in 1995 for addressing complex issues facing the planet and its inhabitants, with a focus on sustainable development.

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Timika

Timika is a chartered city (kota), and the capital of Mimika Regency on the southern coast of Central Papua, Indonesia.

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Topographic isolation

The topographic isolation of a summit is the minimum distance to a point of equal elevation, representing a radius of dominance in which the peak is the highest point.

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Tyrolean traverse

A Tyrolean traverse is a method of crossing through free space between two high points on a rope without a hanging cart or cart equivalent.

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Uhunduni languages

Uhunduni, also known as Damal (Damal-kal) and Amung (Amung-kal) after two of its dialects, is the language of the Amung people and Damal people.

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Ultra-prominent peak

An ultra-prominent peak, or ultra for short, is a mountain summit with a topographic prominence of or more; it is also called a P1500.

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West Northwall Firn

The West Northwall Firn was a glacial body on Mount Carstensz in the Sudirman Range on the island of New Guinea in Central Papua province, Indonesia.

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Western New Guinea

Western New Guinea, also known as Papua, Indonesian New Guinea, New Guinea, and Indonesian Papua, is the western half of the island of New Guinea, formerly Dutch and granted to Indonesia in 1962.

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See also

Four-thousanders of New Guinea

• Carstensz East
• Mount Giluwe
• Mount Wilhelm
• Ngga Pilimsit
• Ngga Pulu
• Puncak Jaya
• Puncak Mandala
• Puncak Trikora
• Sumantri

Mountains of Western New Guinea

• Bon Irau
• Carstensz East
• List of highest mountains of New Guinea
• Mount Arfak
• Mount Yamin
• New Guinea Highlands
• Puncak Jaya
• Puncak Mandala
• Puncak Trikora
• Sumantri

Seven Summits

• Aconcagua
• Denali
• Eight Summits
• Explorer's Grand Slam
• Goûter Route
• Indonesia Seven Summits Expedition
• Indonesia Women Seven Summits Expedition
• Mont Blanc
• Mount Elbrus
• Mount Everest
• Mount Kilimanjaro
• Mount Kosciuszko
• Mount Wilhelm
• Puncak Jaya
• Seven Second Summits
• Seven Summits
• Seven Third Summits
• Vinson Massif
• Volcanic Seven Summits

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puncak_Jaya

Also known as Carstensz Peak Summit, Carstensz Pyramid, Carstensz Toppen, Carstenszgebergte, Carstenz Pyramid, Carstenzgebergte, Djaja Peak, Highest mountain in Oceania, History of Puncak Jaya, Jaya Peak, Jaya Summit, Jaya Wijaya, Mount Carstensz, Mount Carstenz, Mount Djaja, Mount Jaya, Mount Jayawijaya, Nemangkawi, Sneebergh.

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