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Mount Simpson
Papua New Guinea · Elevation not verified
Reviewed routes
No reviewed route is included. Missing route information does not establish safe or legal access.
About this mountain
Mount Simpson is recorded as a mountain in southeastern Papua New Guinea.
Sources and scope
SelectedUFI-2200138; frozenpointandidentityunchanged, no surveyedelevationclaim
- NGA Geographic Names Server Mount Simpson UFI-2200138 — US National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency · checked 2026-10-29
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 and 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 2026-10-29
Nature & wildlife
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.
Documentedmountainlocalityandslopes; notexactsummit
Sources and 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 2026-10-29
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.
Documentedmountainlocalityandslopes; notexactsummit
Sources and 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 2026-10-29
Safety & conditions
UK travel advice warns of unexploded Second World War weapons in Milne Bay, among other areas of Papua New Guinea.
RegionalMilneBayonly
2026-10-29T06:09:43.775340+00:00
Sources and scope
MilneBayregionaladvisoryforBritishtravellers; not evidenceofweaponsatMountSimpson or an exactsummitclosure
- Papua New Guinea travel advice: Safety and security — UK Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office · checked 2026-10-29