Mount Rolleston

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Mount Rolleston
Māori: Te Tara o Tama
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height 2275  m
location Canterbury Region , South Island , New Zealand
Mountains Jellicoe Ridge , New Zealand Alps
Coordinates 42 ° 54 '52 "  S , 171 ° 31' 3"  E Coordinates: 42 ° 54 '52 "  S , 171 ° 31' 3"  O
Mount Rolleston (New Zealand)
Mount Rolleston
First ascent 1912 ( H. Thompson, J. Gilligan )

The Mount Rolleston in, language of the Māori originally Te Tara o Tama called, is a mountain in the Southern Alps in the region Canterbury on the South Island of New Zealand .

Origin of name

The mountain was sighted in 1864 by the surveyor Arthur Dudley Dobson on his search for a route to the gold fields of the west coast through the Alps and named by him after the superintendent of the province of Canterbury William Rolleston at the time .

geography

The 2275  m high mountain is located about 50 km southeast of Hokitika , on the west coast, and 3.7 km west of Arthur's Pass and the New Zealand State Highway 73, which leads to the north . It is part of the Jellicoe Ridge , which stretches here for around 20 km in a north-south direction. Directly south below the summit is a small glacier, 1.14 km long and 0.87 km wide, called Crow Glacier .

The mountain range is located in Arthur's Pass National Park and is on the western edge of the park.

Alpine hiking

Ordinary hikers can approach the mountain from the Jacks Hut parking lot on New Zealand State Highway 73 via the westbound Bealey Valley Track , which extends 1.2 km through the valley and allows a hike of around 25 minutes. Another way to see the mountain is to approach the mountain from the northeast via the 45-minute Otira Valley Track . Alpine equipment is then required to climb the mountain on both climbs, as the summit is covered by snow and ice all year round.

The first ascent of Mount Rolleston was made by mountaineers H. Thomson and J. Gilligan in 1912.

literature

  • Arthur Dudley Dobson : Reminiscences of Arthur Dudley Dobson . WHITCOMBE AND TOMBS LIMITED , Auckland 1930, Chapter IV. West Coast Survey , p. 36–52 (English, online [PDF; 488 kB ; accessed on December 14, 2018]).
  • Department of Conservation (Ed.): Discover Arthur's Pass . A guide to Arthur's Pass National Park and village . Christchurch 2012, ISBN 978-0-478-14813-8 (English, online [PDF; 3.9 MB ; accessed on December 14, 2018]).

Web links

  • Mount Rolleston, West Coast Road . Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa,accessed December 13, 2018(English, black and white photograph of the mountain from theWest Coast Road).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Dobson : Reminiscences of Arthur Dudley Dobson . 1930, p.  39 .
  2. ↑ a b Topo maps . Land Information New Zealand , accessed December 14, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b Coordinates and longitudes were determined using Goggle Earth Pro Version 7.3.1.4507 on December 14, 2018
  4. ^ East & South Auckland Suburbs - Map 51 . In: New Zealand Touring Atlas . 5th edition. Hema Maps , Brisbane 2015, ISBN 978-1-877302-92-3 (English).
  5. ↑ Discover Arthur's Pass . 2012, p.  28 .
  6. ↑ Discover Arthur's Pass . 2012, p.  30 .
  7. ^ A b Armando Corvini: Mount Rolleston . In: Peakware . Interactive Outdoors , accessed December 14, 2018 .