The Sudirman Range, also known as the Snow Mountains,"Sudirman Mountains (Snow Mountains)". Papua Insects Foundation. Accessed 5 August 2021

/ref> Dugunduguoo, or Nassau Range is a mountain range in

Central Papua Central Papua, officially the Central Papua Province ( id, Provinsi Papua Tengah) is an Indonesian province located in the central region of Western New Guinea. It was formally established on 11 November 2022 from the former eight western regen ...

province,

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. It is named after the first armed forces commander-in-chief and Indonesian national hero Sudirman. It comprises a western portion of the

Maoke Mountains The Maoke Mountains is a mountain range in the province of Central Papua and Highland Papua. It extends over 692 km and is composed of the Sudirman and Jayawijaya ranges. It is part of the larger New Guinea Highlands The New Guinea Highla ...

. The highest peak in

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and

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Puncak Jaya 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 ...

(4,884 m), is located here, as well as the large Grasberg copper and gold mine, operated by the Freeport company based out of the

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. Other peaks of the Sudirman Range are: *

Sumantri Sumantri Peak (also spelled ''Soemantri'' or ''Soemantri Brodjonegoro''SummitPost.orgSumantri - Climbing, Hiking & Mountaineering/ref>) is a sharp mountain in the western Sudirman Range ( Papua). It rises . The peak is approximately 2 km nor ...

(4,870 m) *

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 . Trigonometric measurements showed that Ngga Pulu was (and had been for many centuries before) the highest mountain of New Guinea an ...

(4,863 m) *

Carstensz East Carstensz East (or East Carstensz Top, Carstensz Oriental, Carstensz Timor ) is a sub peak of Puncak Jaya Puncak Jaya (; literally "Glorious Peak") or Carstensz Pyramid, Mount Jayawijaya or Mount Carstensz () on the island of New Guinea, w ...

(4,820 m or 4,808 m) Puncakjaya

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