Mount Bosavi

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Mount Bosavi
Mount Bosavi is located in Papua New Guinea
Mount Bosavi
Mount Bosavi
Location in Papua New Guinea
Highest point
Elevation2,507 m (8,225 ft)[1][2]
Prominence1,887 m (6,191 ft)[2]
ListingUltra
Coordinates6°36′51″S 142°49′36″E / 6.61417°S 142.82667°E / -6.61417; 142.82667Coordinates: 6°36′51″S 142°49′36″E / 6.61417°S 142.82667°E / -6.61417; 142.82667[2]
Geography
LocationSouthern Highlands, Papua New Guinea
Geology
Mountain typeVolcano
Last eruption200,000 years ago[3]

Mount Bosavi is a mountain in the Southern Highlands province, Papua New Guinea. It is the collapsed cone of an extinct volcano on the Great Papuan Plateau, part of the Kikori River basin.[4] The crater is approximately 4 km wide and 1 km deep;[3] it is home to a number of endemic species.

Part of the mountain is included in the , established in 2006. It forms part of the proposed UNESCO World Heritage Site Kikori River Basin/Great Papuan Plateau.[5] The people living just north of the mountain refer to themselves as Bosavi kalu (people of Bosavi) and divide into four culturally identical but linguistically marked groups, the Kaluli, , , and . Collectively they are often referred to as Bosavi kalu ("men of Bosavi").[4]

Fauna and flora[]

A 2009 expedition by an international team of scientists and a television crew from the BBC Natural History Unit filming Lost Land of the Volcano, a BBC wildlife documentary, discovered more than 40 previously undescribed species, including 16 frogs, at least 3 fish, several insects and spiders, a bat, and a giant rat, measuring 82 cm in length and weighing approximately 1.5 kg.[3][6] Mount Bosavi is also the type locality for Pseudohydromys pumehanae, a recently described species of moss-mouse.

See also[]

  • Mount Bosavi languages

References[]

  • Hammond World Travel Atlas. Union, N.J.: Hammond World Atlas Corporation. 2005. ISBN 0-8437-1982-6.
  • Feld, Steven (1982). Sound and Sentiment: Birds, Weeping, Poetics, and Song in Kaluli Expression. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Footnotes
  1. ^ Hammond World Travel Atlas p. 243
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Papua New Guinea; Ultra-Prominence page". peaklist.org. Retrieved 2014-02-15.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b c Booth, Robert (7 September 2009). "Lost world of fanged frogs and giant rats discovered in Papua New Guinea". The Guardian. Retrieved 2014-02-15.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b Feld, pp.3–4
  5. ^ "Kikori River Basin / Great Papuan Plateau". UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Retrieved 2007-02-22.
  6. ^ "Giant rat found in 'lost volcano'". BBC News. 6 September 2009. Retrieved 2014-02-15.

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