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Puncak Mandala or Mandala Peak (until 1963 Julianatop or Juliana Peak) is a mountain located in
Highland Papua Highland Papua ( id, Papua Pegunungan) is a province of Indonesia, which roughly follows the borders of Papuan customary region of Lano-Pago, shortened to La Pago. It covers an area of and had a population of 1,408,641 according to the official es ...
, Indonesia. At , it is the highest point of the Jayawijaya (Orange) Range and included in Seven Second Summits. Following
Mount Carstensz Puncak Jaya (; literally "Glorious Peak") or Carstensz Pyramid, Mount Jayawijaya or Mount Carstensz () on the island of New Guinea, with an elevation of , is the highest mountain peak of an island on Earth. The mountain is located in the Sudi ...
(4884 m) 350 km to the west, Mandala is the second highest freestanding mountain of
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,
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New Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Motu Hiri Motu, also known as Police Motu, Pidgin Motu, or just Hiri, is a language of Papua New Guinea, which is spoken in surrounding areas of Port Moresby (Capital of Papua New Guinea). It is a simplified version of ...
and
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.List of highest mountains in Indonesia
at the Gunung Baggingsite.


Geology

Mandala is one of the three high massifs of Western New Guinea, together with the Carstensz and Trikora complexes. This peak used to have an ice cap, but it was last seen in 1989 and by 2003 it was totally gone. Based on the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission data, this peak is likely higher than
Puncak Trikora Puncak Trikora, until 1963 Wilhelmina Peak, is a 4,730 or mountain in the Highland Papua province of Indonesia on New Guinea. It lies in the eastern part of the Sudirman (Nassau) Range of the Maoke Mountains. Behind Puncak Jaya (Carstensz Pyr ...
, which lost its icecap in about 1960.


Ascents

Climbers from the Dutch 1959 expedition to the
Star Mountains The Star Mountains (Dutch (colonial)'': Sterrengebergte''; Indonesian'': Pegunungan Bintang'') are a mountain range in western Papua New Guinea and the eastern end of Highland Papua, Indonesia, stretching from the eastern end of Indonesia to the ...
reached the peak of Puncak Mandala on 9 September.


See also

* List of Southeast Asian mountains * List of Ultras of Malay Archipelago *
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 3750 m high and have a topographic prominence of 500 m or more. These 50 peaks are also the highest mountains of Australasia ...


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"Puncak Mandala"
at GunungBagging.com Mountains of Western New Guinea Seven Second Summits Four-thousanders of New Guinea {{HPapua-geo-stub