Mount Townsend
Mount Townsend | ||
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View from Mount Townsend to Mount Kosciuszko |
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height | 2209 m | |
location | New South Wales , Australia | |
Mountains | Snowy Mountains , Great Dividing Range | |
Dominance | 3.7 km | |
Notch height | 189 m | |
Coordinates | 36 ° 25 '22 " S , 148 ° 15' 31" O | |
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First ascent | 1837 |
Mount Townsend is the second highest mountain on the mainland of the Australian continent .
It is located about 3.68 km north of the highest mountain on the Australian continent, Mount Kosciuszko . Mount Townsend is located in New South Wales in the Snowy Mountains (part of the Great Dividing Range ) and is in Kosciuszko National Park .
If you reduce the continent on the Australian mainland, Mount Townsend is one of the Seven Second Summits (English for Seven Second summit ), which summarize each second highest mountains of the seven continents. If you take the term wider, then the significantly higher Puncak Trikora in Indonesia also belongs to the continent and would, according to this view, be one of the Seven Second Summits.
The mountain was climbed in 1885 by Robert Lendlmayer von Lendenfeld , who named it Mr. Townsend after a government official.
The names Mount Townsend and Mount Kosciuszko were originally assigned to the other mountain. Height measurements showed that Mount Kosciuszko, originally thought to be higher, was actually slightly smaller than Mount Townsend. So that Mount Kosciuszko could still remain the higher mountain, the New South Wales Lands Department changed the names of both peaks.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Deirdre Slattery: The Australian Alps. Kosciuszko, Alpine and Namadgi National Parks. University of New South Wales Press, Sydney 1998, ISBN 0-86840-319-9 , p. 105 .
- ^ Mountain systems of Australia. In: Year Book Australia, 1901-1909. Australian Bureau of Statistics, accessed September 6, 2010 .