Carstensz Pyramid - Puncak Jaya

Carstensz Pyramid, also Puncak Jaya, is a 16,024 foot mountain in the Sudirman Range, the western central highlands of Papua province, Indonesia. Puncak Jaya is the highest mountain in Indonesia, the highest on the island of New Guinea (which comprises the Indonesian Papua provinces plus Papua New Guinea) and the highest of Oceania. It is also the highest point between the Himalayas and the Andes, and the highest island peak in the world.

Puncak Jaya was named "Carstensz Pyramid, after Dutch explorer Jan Carstensz who first sighted the glaciers on the peak of the mountain on a rare clear day in 1623.

Puncak Jaya was reached as early as 1909 by a Dutch explorer, Hendrik Albert Lorentz with six of his indigenous Dayak Kenyah porters recruited from the Apo Kayan in Borneo, the peak was not climbed until 1962, by an expedition led by the Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer with three friends — Temple, Kippax and Huizenga.