The Saruwaged Range is a mountain range

Mountain range

A mountain range is a single, large mass consisting of a succession of mountains or narrowly spaced mountain ridges, with or without peaks, closely related in position, direction, formation, and age; a component part of a mountain system or of a mountain chain...

 on the Huon Peninsula

Huon Peninsula

Huon Peninsula is a large rugged peninsula on the island of New Guinea in Morobe Province, eastern Papua New Guinea. It is named after French explorer Jean-Michel Huon de Kermadec who discovered it along with his personal assistant and porter, Henry Ole. The peninsula is dominated by the steep...

 in Morobe Province

Morobe Province

Morobe Province is a province on the northern coast of Papua New Guinea. The provincial capital, and largest city, is Lae. The province covers 34,500 km², including 719 km² maritime area, with a population of 539,725...

, north-eastern Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea , officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and numerous offshore islands...

. The range is dominated by the Sarawaget Massif which is capped by the two peaks of Mount Bangeta

Mount Bangeta

Mount Bangeta, also known as Mount Sarawaget, is the highest mountain in Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea. It lies in the Saruwaged Range and at it is one of the highest mountains in the country....

 and Mount Sarawaged, at 6°18′39"S 147°05′27"E, whose given 4,121 m elevation is SRTM compatible.

The Saruwaged Range runs into the Finisterre Range

Finisterre Range

Finisterre Range is a mountain range in north-eastern Papua New Guinea, at . The unnamed highest point of the range , which is ranked 45th in the world by prominence, is usually quoted at 4,175 m, but SRTM data suggests that it is nearer to 4,120 m...

 to the west and together they form a natural barrier between the Ramu

Ramu River

The Ramu is a river in northern Papua New Guinea. The headwaters of the river are formed in the Kratke Range from where it then travels approximately north-west to the Bismarck Sea....

 and Markham

Markham River

The Markham River is a river in eastern Papua New Guinea. It originates in the Finisterre Range and flows for to empty into the Huon Gulf at Lae....

 valleys to the south and Vitiaz Strait

Vitiaz Strait

Vitiaz Strait is a strait between New Britain and the Huon Peninsula, northern New Guinea .The Vitiaz Strait was so named by Nicholai Nicholaievich Mikluho-Maklai to commemorate the Russian corvette Vitiaz in which he sailed from October 1870 by way of South America and the Pacific Islands reaching...

 to the north. Streams flowing from its southern flanks feed the Markham.

History

The Germans during their years of administration in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, made several exploratory trips into the range. Early European ascents of Sarawaged Massif include those by the missionary Christian Keyser

Christian Keyser

Christian Gottlob Keyser was a Lutheran missionary of the Neuendettelsau Mission Society. He served for almost 22 years at the Neuendettelsau Mission Station in the Finschhafen District of New Guinea, which had been founded in 1892 by Johann Flierl...

 in 1913 and Charles Lane Poole

Charles Lane Poole

Charles Lane Poole was an English Australian forester who, introduced systematic, science-based forestry to Western Australia, was the Commonwealth's first Inspector-General of Forests and trained many of Australia's professional foresters at Australian Forestry School which he established in...

in 1925. Ascending to these summits would be likely to depend on finding a way through thick tropical rain forest.