Mount Albert Edward, Papua New Guinea, Mountain summit in Wharton Range, Papua New Guinea.

Mount Albert Edward is a summit in the Wharton Range featuring two distinct peaks separated by roughly 400 meters at an elevation of 3,990 meters. The higher peak provides sweeping views across the surrounding mountainous terrain.

The first recorded ascent occurred in 1906 when C A W Monckton reached the summit and established early exploration records. This climb marked the beginning of documented human access to this remote peak.

The western summit carries a Christian cross, a marker that gives the mountain a religious dimension for visitors who reach it. The name honours Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII, a colonial-era naming still used on maps and in the accounts of the 1906 and 1933 expeditions.

The summit lies about 120 km north of Port Moresby in Central Province, so approach and logistics are organised from the capital rather than from Goroka. The two peaks stand roughly 400 m apart, with the cross on the slightly higher western top and the trig station on the eastern one. Plan for a long approach on foot in remote terrain.

The cross stands on the western peak, which is the slightly higher of the two; the eastern peak, about 400 m away, carries a trig station. The first detailed account of the mountain came only in 1935, two years after Richard Archbold and Austin L. Rand climbed it in 1933.