Hindenburg Range | |
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Geography | |
State | Papua New Guinea |
Range coordinates | 5°15′S141°23′E / 5.250°S 141.383°E Coordinates: 5°15′S141°23′E / 5.250°S 141.383°E |
Parent range | Island of New Guinea |
The Hindenburg Range is a mountain range in the remote North Fly District of the Western Province of Papua New Guinea, stretching from the Star Mountains to the east. [1] The Hindenburg Wall escarpment leads up to the range. [2]
A mountain range or hill range is a series of mountains or hills ranged 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 arisen from the same cause, usually an orogeny. Mountain ranges are formed by a variety of geological processes, but most of the significant ones on Earth are the result of plate tectonics. Mountain ranges are also found on many planetary mass objects in the Solar System and are likely a feature of most terrestrial planets.
Western Province is a coastal province in southwestern Papua New Guinea, bordering the Indonesian province of Papua. The provincial capital is Daru. The largest town in the province is Tabubil. Other major settlements are Kiunga, Ningerum, Olsobip and Balimo.
Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea is a country in Oceania that occupies the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and its offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia. Its capital, located along its southeastern coast, is Port Moresby. The western half of New Guinea forms the Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Papua.
The Bismarck Range is a mountain range in the Western Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea. The range is named after the German Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck. From the 1880s to 1914 this part of the island was a German colony.
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Bintuni Bay is the eastward extension or inner bay of Berau Bay off Bird's Head Peninsula of New Guinea. Administratively it is part of West Papua (region), Indonesia. The bay is 12 miles (19.3 km) wide at its entrance and the land on both sides is marsh.
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Auriroa Island is an island in Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea.
Kabakon or Kaka Kon Island is a small island in group of Duke of York Islands in the Bismark Archipelago, Papua New Guinea. August Engelhardt chose Kabakon as the island to establish his Sun-worshiping sect, notable for only eating coconuts, from 1902 until his death.
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Mioko is island in Duke of York Islands archipelago in Papua New Guinea. Located in East New Britain Province, in the east of the country, about 800 km north of Port Moresby. Island is populated.
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Kerawara is island in Duke of York Islands archipelago in Papua New Guinea. It is located in the east of the country, in the East New Britain Province, about 800 km to the east of the Port Moresby.
Soaru Range also known as Sewori Range is a mountain range in the Southern Highlands Province in central part of Papua New Guinea, 500 km north-west of Port Moresby is the nation's capitol.
April Salome Forest Management Area also known as April Salumei Rainforest is a forest management area in April — Salumei tropical forest covering about 521,500 hectares in Ambunti-Dreikikir District of East Sepik Province, of Papua New Guinea. Forest resides in the basins of two rivers: April and Salumei. Town Ambunti serves as a gateway to the April Salome Forest Management Area.
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Pingirip is a settlement is the Mendi-Munihu District of the Southern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea.
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