Portal:Indonesia/POTW/39, 2007



Puncak Jaya is the highest mountain on New Guinea island (4884 m, rank 9th). Originally named as Cartensz Pyramid after the Dutch explorer Jan Carstenszoon, who first sighted the glaciers on the peak of the mountain on a rare clear day in 1623. The first person who climbed the peak was Hendrik A. Lorentz in 1909.

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