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MOUNTAIN KNOWLEDGE
PAPUA NEW GUINEA · OCEANIA
Mount Simpson
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ELEVATIONNot verified
PROMINENCENot verified
TYPEMountain
COUNTRYPapua New Guinea
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AT A GLANCE
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Explore the mountain’s landscape, local context and practical information below. Sources are included with each section.
MOUNTAIN KNOWLEDGE
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Updated 29 October 2026. Explore the sources with each section, and check current local advice before travel.
About this mountain
Mount Simpson is recorded as a mountain in southeastern Papua New Guinea.
Sources & scope
SelectedUFI-2200138; frozenpointandidentityunchanged, no surveyedelevationclaim
- NGA Geographic Names Server Mount Simpson UFI-2200138 ↗US National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency · checked 29/10/2026
Geology & landscape
Sun and Mann’s 2021 study describes the area between Suckling Dome and Mount Simpson as a higher, steeper southeastern transtensional sector of the Owen-Stanley fault system.
Sources & scope
Explicit regionalSucklingDome–MountSimpson sector; not exactsummitlithology or a currentearthquakeforecast
- Along-Strike Rapid Structural and Geomorphic Transition From Transpression to Strike-Slip to Transtension Related to Active Microplate Rotation, Papua New Guinea ↗Lei Sun and Paul Mann; Frontiers in Earth Science9 · checked 29/10/2026
Nature & wildlife
A detailed species list is not available for this mountain yet.
A 2022 study identifies Mount Simpson as a locality with highly restricted-range microhylid frogs threatened by repeated burning and conversion of forest to grassland.
- Area covered by this information
Documentedmountainlocalityandslopes; notexactsummit
Sources & scope
Namedmountain localityanditsdocumentedslopes; no speciescensus or observationatfrozenexact summit
- Melanesia holds the world’s most diverse and intact insular amphibian fauna ↗Oliver et al.; Communications Biology5:1182; University of Canberra repository · checked 29/10/2026
Conservation
A 2022 study identifies Mount Simpson as a locality with highly restricted-range microhylid frogs threatened by repeated burning and conversion of forest to grassland.
- Area covered by this information
Documentedmountainlocalityandslopes; notexactsummit
Sources & scope
Namedmountain localityanditsdocumentedslopes; no speciescensus or observationatfrozenexact summit
- Melanesia holds the world’s most diverse and intact insular amphibian fauna ↗Oliver et al.; Communications Biology5:1182; University of Canberra repository · checked 29/10/2026
Safety & conditions
UK travel advice warns of unexploded Second World War weapons in Milne Bay, among other areas of Papua New Guinea.
- Area covered by this information
RegionalMilneBayonly
- Checked
2026-10-29T06:09:43.775340+00:00
Sources & scope
MilneBayregionaladvisoryforBritishtravellers; not evidenceofweaponsatMountSimpson or an exactsummitclosure
- Papua New Guinea travel advice: Safety and security ↗UK Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office · checked 29/10/2026
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PLANNING COVERAGE
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