Lorentz National Park - Southeast Asia's largest single protected area with snow-capped mountains and glaciers
Snow-capped mountains and glaciers linked with mangroves and tropical seas are the unique features of Lorentz National Park, the largest single protected area in Southeast Asia (MacKinnon 2002). The Park covers some 2,505,600 hectares including extensions on its eastern side, and a marine component (Ngudi et. al., 2008); its size is about 0.6 percent of Irian Jaya's total size. It also boasts the highest peak east of the Himalayas-the Puncak Jaya, sometimes called Mount Carstensz or the Carstensz Pyramid-Indonesia's highest mountain at 4,884 meters above sea level.