Mount Bosavi
Mount Bosavi | |
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Mount Bosavi Location in Papua New Guinea | |
Highest point | |
Elevation | 2,507 m (8,225 ft)[1][2] |
Prominence | 1,887 m (6,191 ft)[2] |
Listing | Ultra |
Coordinates | 6°36′51″S 142°49′36″E / 6.61417°S 142.82667°ECoordinates: 6°36′51″S 142°49′36″E / 6.61417°S 142.82667°E[2] |
Geography | |
Location | Southern Highlands, Papua New Guinea |
Geology | |
Mountain type | Volcano |
Last eruption | 200,000 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
- ^ Hammond World Travel Atlas p. 243
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "Papua New Guinea; Ultra-Prominence page". peaklist.org. Retrieved 2014-02-15.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Feld, pp.3–4
- ^ "Kikori River Basin / Great Papuan Plateau". UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Retrieved 2007-02-22.
- ^ "Giant rat found in 'lost volcano'". BBC News. 6 September 2009. Retrieved 2014-02-15.
External links[]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mount Bosavi. |
- Satellite view from the European Space Agency
- WWF page of Libano and Sulamesi Wildlife Management Areas, including map
- WWF pictures from Mt. Bosavi and region
- Seacology Mt. Bosavi Rainforest Conservation Project Seacology
- "Mount Bosavi, Papua New Guinea" on Peakbagger
- "Bosavi". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2021-06-25.
- Mountains of Papua New Guinea
- Stratovolcanoes of Papua New Guinea
- Southern Highlands Province
- Pleistocene volcanoes