Carstensz expedition

The Carstensz expedition was made in 1936 by Anton Colijn, Jean Jacques Dozy and Frits Wissel.

They left on October 29, 1936, from Aika, a town on the southern coast of Dutch New Guinea and returned on December 24.

Since 1936, massive snow melt has caused the nearby rocky spires of Carstensz Pyramid (a.k.a.

Puncak Jaya) (4,882 m), which the expedition was unable to climb, to become the highest summit.

[1] Dozy was the geologist of the expedition, and he discovered the Ore Mountains: the world's largest gold deposit.