[1] Several rivers, including Aziana, Yaiga, Lamari and Ramu originate from the mountain.

In November 1889, Hugo Zöller became the first European to enter the Kratke Range from the former German colony Kaiser-Wilhelmsland in German New Guinea during an expedition to the Finisterre Range.

He then called it Krätkegebirge, after the governor of German colony, Reinhold Kraetke [de] (1845-1934).

Kratke Range was only explored after the German colonial era at the beginning of the 1920s.

Various endemic bird species live in the mountain such as the Modest tiger parrot.