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ULTRA-PROMINENCE PAGE

31 Mountains with Prominence of 1,500 m. or greater

List compiled 2004 by Aaron Maizlish
released 8/24/04

This list contains all known P1500 summits in the nation of Papua New Guinea, including 17 on the main island, 5 on New Britain, 2 on Fergusson Island, and 7 that are the highest points on other islands.

This list does not include the 12 summits on Irian Jaya, which is the Indonesian half of the island of New Guinea.  Those peaks can be found on the Indonesia page.  The island of New Guinea may well end up with four of the world's Top 100 prominences; given that Mt. Suckling and Mt. Wilhelm place near #100. 

February 18, 2006:  I have changed the style of this page to reflect the "interpolated prominence", which is the same as what will be found on the other ultra pages.  All of the saddle data on this page was taken from the Papua New Guinea 1:100,000 map series, which has a 40 meter contour interval.  I have taken the midpoint of the contour intervals for the saddle elevation in the instances where a spot elevation is not provided.  This was compatible with SRTM data in every case.

Revised February 19, 2006
Rank
 Summit Name
 Location Lat Long Elevation
(m)
 Prominence
(m)
 Saddle
(m)
 S(e) Elev
(ft)
 Prom
(ft)
 Notes

1 HP Finisterre Range
05º57'15"S 146º22'30"E 4,175 3,734 441
13,698 12,251 [1]
2 Mt. Suckling Goropu Mtns. 09º40'09"S 149º00'39"E 3,676 2,976 700
12,060 9,763
3 Mt. Wilhelm
05º46'48"S 145º01'45"E 4,509 2,969 1,540 40 14,793 9,740 [3]
4 Mt. Victoria Owen Stanley Range
 08º53'33"S 147º32'00"E 4,038 2,738 1,300 40 13,248 8,983
5 Mt. Balbi HP Bougainville
 05º54'18"S 154º59'42"E 2,715 2,715 - - 8,907 8,907
6 Mt. Oiautukekea (Goodenough) HP Goodenough Is.
 09º20'03"S 150º12'21"E 2,536 2,536 - - 8,320 8,320
7 Mt. Giluwe
06º02'36"S 143º53'12"E 4,367 2,507 1,860 40 14,327 8,225
8 HP New Ireland HP New Ireland
 04º24'03"S 152º56'18"E 2,340 2,340 - - 7,678 7,678
9 Mt. Ulawun (The Father) HP New Britain 
 05º03'03"S 151º19'51"E 2,334 2,334 - - 7,657 7,657 [9]
10 Mt. Kabangama
06º03'39"S 144º36'57"E 4,104 2,284 1,820 40 13,465 7,493
11 HP Nakanai Mtns. (East New Britain) 05º11'12"S 151º50'06"E 2,316 2,056 260 40 7,598 6,745
12 Mt. Kilkerran HP Fergusson Island  
 09º27'42"S 150º46'06"E 1,947 1,947 - - 6,388 6,388
13 Mt. Piora
06º43'33"S 145º59'18"E 3,557 1,897 1,660 40 11,670 6,224
14
 Mt. Bosavi
06º36'51"S
 142º49'36"E
 2,507
 1,887
 620
8,225
 6,191
15 Mt. Karoma
05º43'21"S 142º29'42"E 3,623 1,883 1,740 40 11,886 6,178
16 Mt. Simpson
10º02'06"S 149º34'09"E 2,883 1,863 1,020 40 9,459 6,112
17 Mt. Kunugui HP Karkar Island
 04º40'36"S 145º58'39"E 1,833 1,833 - - 6,014 6,014
18 Mt. Victory (Keraroa)
09º12'00"S 149º04'18"E 1,891 1,831 60 40 6,204 6,007
19 HP Manam Island HP Manam Island 
 04º04'39"S 145º02'21"E 1,807 1,807 - - 5,929 5,929
20 Mt. Michael Central Range 06º24'18"S 145º18'54"E 3,647 1,787 1,860 40 11,965 5,863
21
 Mt. Talawe (West New Britain) 05º32'15"S 148º23'48"E 1,824 1,773 51 - 5,984 5,817
22 Barurumea Ridge
(HP Bainings Mtns.) 		(East New Britain) 04º44'45"S 152º03'12"E 2,063 1,723 340 40 6,768 5,653
23 Mt. Sarawaget
06º18'39"S 147º05'24"E 4,121 1,701 2,420 40 13,520 5,581
24 HP Bewani Mtns.
03º17'39"S 141º43'24"E 1,980 1,664 316
6,496 5,459
 [24]
25 2 km. NE Mt. Bel HP Umboi Island 
 05º36'54"S 147º57'57"E 1,658 1,658 - - 5,440 5,440
26 Pt. 1951m.
 (West New Britain) 05º48'45"S 149º50'18"E 1,951 1,651 300 40 6,401 5,417
27 Mt. Maybole
 (Fergusson Island) 09º26'09"S 150º33'27"E 1,665 1,597 68 - 5,463 5,239
28 HP Adelbert Range
04º42'09"S 145º13'54"E 1,716 1,576 140 40 5,630 5,171
29 HP Sibium Mtns.
09º19'33"S 148º21'30"E 2,295 1,555 740 40 7,530 5,102
30
Mt. Shungol
06º51'48"S 146º42'57"E 2,752 1,518 1,234 - 9,029 4,980 [30]
31 Mt Taraka or Mt. Takuan
 (Bougainville) 06º26'36"S 155º36'33"E 2,251 1,511 740 40 7,385 4,957

FOOTNOTES:

Source:  All elevation values were taken from the Papua New Guinea 1:100,000 topographic national survey.  In cases where summit values were not stated, I took the spot elevation from the Tactical Pilotage Charts, which was within the contour error bound in all but two cases. 

1)  HP Finisterre Range:  This is the most prominent point in the country, but not the highest point.  According to the topographic maps, it is an unnamed point at 4175m.  This is somewhat incompatible with the SRTM data, whose highest cell in the region is only 4120m.  According to SRTM, Mt. Sarawaget (#23 on this list with elevation 4121m) is approximately the same height.  The key saddle, dubbewd the Ramu/Markham divide is approimately 441m, 480-40 on the 1:100,000 topographic map.

3)  Mt. Wilhelm:  The HP of PNG.  There may be a lower saddle in Irian Jaya connecting Wilhelm to Carstenz, but this is doubtful.

9)  Mt Ulawun is very active and may have a new elevation value, which is important given that it is only the HP of New Britain by 18 meters.  SRTM suggests it is at least 2350m.

25)  The unnamed HP of the Bewani Mtns. (a low range North of the Sepik.  The PNG 1:100,000 map shows a high contour of 1960 meters with a 40 contour interval.  This is consistent with the SRTM data.  The key saddle, in Irian Jaya, was determined by SRTM analysis.

30)  Mt. Taraka:   The PNG 1:100,000 topographic map gives a high contour of 2,200+40 for Taraka with no spot elevation.  This is confirmed by the TPC that gives a 2,219 elevation, leaving the peak one meter shy of the prominence criterion for inclusion on this list.   However commercial maps mostly state 2,251, and this is confirmed by SRTM analysis whose highest cell is 2,250m.  This suggests that the commercial maps are accurate (i.e. based on a later survey) and that the PNG100 map and TPC are inaccurate. 

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