Jayawijaya Mountains

Jayawijaya Mountains
Jayawijaya Mountains
Pegunungan Jayawijaya
	Puncak Mandala
Highest point
Peak	Puncak Mandala
Elevation	4,760 m (15,620 ft)
Coordinates	4°21′S 139°25′E / 4.350°S 139.417°E
Geography
	Jayawijaya Mountains Location of the Jayawijaya Mountains in Western New Guinea
Location	New Guinea
Country	Indonesia
Province	Highland Papua
Parent range	New Guinea Highlands

The Jayawijaya Mountains, formerly known as the Orange Range, are the eastern mountain range of the Maoke Mountains in the central highlands region of the Indonesian part of New Guinea. The range extends for 370 kilometres (230 mi) east of the Sudirman Range to the Star Mountains. Its highest point is Puncak Mandala at 4,760 metres (15,617 ft). The Baliem River has its source in the range.

Inhabitants of the range include the Ketengban.^[1]

Jayawijaya Mountains Wildlife Refuge, also known as Pegunungan Jayawijaya Wildlife Refuge, covers part of the range.^[2]

The range's Eternity Glaciers are projected to vanish by the year 2026, due both to climate change and strong El Niño weather patterns. The glaciers' depth has declined from 32 m (105 ft) in 2010 to 8 m (26 ft) in 2021.^[3]

Footnotes

^ Diamond & Bishop (1999)
^ [UNEP-WCMC (2024). Protected Area Profile for Pegunungan Jayawijaya from the World Database on Protected Areas. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
^ Ratcliffe, Rebecca (25 August 2023). "Indonesia's tropical Eternity Glaciers could vanish within years, experts say". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 August 2023.

References

Diamond, Jared & Bishop, K. David (1999): Ethno-ornithology of the Ketengban People, Indonesian New Guinea. In: Medin, Douglas L. & Atran, Scott: Folkbiology: 17–46. MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-63192-X
Walters, Patrick (1997): Irian Jayans spy 'Tassie Tiger' Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine. Version of 1997-AUG-20. Retrieved 2008-JUN-17.