Mount Townsend

Mount Townsend
	View from Mount Townsend to Mount Kosciuszko
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 Coordinates: 36 ° 25 '22 " S , 148 ° 15' 31" O
First ascent	1837

Mount Townsend is the second highest mountain on the mainland of the Australian continent .

Painting of Mount Townsend by Eugene von Guerard (1863)

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

Commons : Mount Townsend - collection of images, videos and audio files

Peakbagger.com: Mount Townsend

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 .

[1] 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 .

[2] Mountain systems of Australia. In: Year Book Australia, 1901-1909. Australian Bureau of Statistics, accessed September 6, 2010 .