Puncak Jaya

American  

[poon-chahk jah-yah] / ˈpʊn tʃɑk ˈdʒɑ jɑ /

Or Puntjak Djaja

noun

1. a mountain in Irian Jaya, Indonesia, on W New Guinea: highest island point in the world. 16,503 feet (5,030 meters).

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Puncak Jaya

But now there are only small areas around Puncak Jaya, also known as Carstensz Pyramid, with any snow at all.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

At least five groups of Indigenous people have had strong spiritual ties to Puncak Jaya for generations.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

Ice cores taken from the slopes of Puncak Jaya preserve a record of climate history.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

"There is a profound unfairness in this," says Marie Šabacká, a Czech glacier ecologist who travelled to Puncak Jaya last March in a bid to be among the last scientists to study Papua's "eternal snow".

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

So some argue the Australian title should go to Puncak Jaya, also known as Carstensz Pyramid, a 16,000-foot mountain in Indonesia’s Papua New Guinea on the same continental shelf as Australia.

From Washington Times ● Jan. 21, 2017