Adelbert Range is a

mountain range A mountain range or hill range is a series of mountains or hills arranged in a line and connected by high ground. A mountain system or mountain belt is a group of mountain ranges with similarity in form, structure, and alignment that have aris ...

Madang Province Madang is a Provinces of Papua New Guinea, province of Papua New Guinea. The province is on the northern coast of mainland Papua New Guinea and has many of the country's highest peaks, active volcanoes and its biggest mix of languages. The capi ...

, north-central

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. The highest point of the mountains is at . The

Northern Adelbert languages The Northern Adelbert or Pihom–Isumrud languages are a family of twenty languages in the Madang stock of New Guinea. The occupy the coastal northern Adelbert Range Adelbert Range is a mountain range in Madang Province, north-central Papua N ...

and

Southern Adelbert languages The South Adelbert or Southern Adelbert Range languages are a family of languages in the Madang stock of New Guinea, spoken along the tributaries of the Ramu River in the watershed of the Adelbert Range Adelbert Range is a mountain range in Ma ...

are spoken in the region.

Fauna and flora

As with other mountain ranges in Papua New Guinea, it is cloaked in

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, and is home to many rare species of fauna and flora and is highly

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. Adelbert Range is home to many species of birds, including

bird-of-paradise The birds-of-paradise are members of the Family (biology), family Paradisaeidae of the order Passeriformes. The majority of species are found in eastern Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and eastern Australia. The family has 45 species in 17 genera. T ...

and the endemic Fire-maned Bowerbird.

References

Mountain ranges of Papua New Guinea Madang Province {{MadangProvince-geo-stub