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WORLD GEOGRAPHY
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Question
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The highest mountain peak of Oceania is
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Mt. Victoria, Papua New Guinea
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Mt. Kosciusko, Australia
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Mt. Cook, South Island (New Zealand)
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Puncak Jaya, Indonesia.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Indonesia’s Puncak Jaya is the tallest point in Oceania and one of the few tropical or equatorial mountains in the world with glaciers. Puncak Jaya, or Carstensz Pyramid, is a mountain peak on the continent of Oceania. It is located in Indonesia, in the province of Papua.
Detailed explanation-2: -Its 4, 884-meter-tall (16, 024-foot) summit stands well above both Australia’s Mt. Kosciuszko and New Zealand’s Aoraki/Mt. Cook. Located in the Papau province of Indonesia (formerly known as Irian Jaya), the peak is in the midst of the 2, 500-km-long Pegunungan Maoke, or Central Range, of the island of New Guinea.
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