Puncak Yaya

Puncak Jaya, or Carstensz Pyramid, is a mountain top in the continent of Oceania. It is situated in Indonesia, withinside the province of Papua. It is a part of the Sudirman mountain range. At 4,884 meters (16,024 feet) high, it's miles the tallest mountain withinside the southwestern Pacific. It is likewise the best island top withinside the international.

The Indonesian call is Puncak Jaya, whilst Carstensz Pyramid is the European call, for the primary European to sight the mountain, Jan Carstensz. He first noticed Puncak Jaya on a crushing adventure in 1623. Other Europeans did now no longer trust his sighting, as Carstensz claimed that Puncak Jaya became crowned with glaciers and snow.

Puncak Jaya is wonderful for being one of the few tropical or equatorial mountains withinside the international area with glaciers. The Carstensz glacier and the Northwall Firn glaciers have shriveled in recent years because of weather changes.

Puncak Jaya is a part of the Seven Summits venture in mountaineering. The Seven Summit venture is a venture in which mountaineers climb the tallest mountain on each continent. Puncak Jaya is taken into consideration one of the maximum technically hard of the Seven Summit climbs notwithstanding having the bottom elevation.

Height: 4,884 meters

Location: Papua, Indonesia