Mount Kosciuszko

Mount Kosciuszko
Mount Kosciuszko
height	2228  m
location	New South Wales , Australia
Mountains	Snowy Mountains , Great Dividing Range
Dominance	1893 km →  Mount Tutoko
Notch height	2228 m
Coordinates	36 ° 27 '21 "  S , 148 ° 15' 49"  O Coordinates: 36 ° 27 '21 "  S , 148 ° 15' 49"  O
First ascent	1840 by Paweł Strzelecki
Normal way	trail

The Mount Kosciuszko [ mæɔnt kɔziˌɔskəʉ ] (as outdated notation is often found even Mount Kosciusko ) is with 2228  m the highest mountain on the mainland of the Australian continent . It is located in New South Wales in the Snowy Mountains .

The highest mountain on the territory of Australia is Mawson Peak ( 2745  m ) on the island of Heard , which is not part of the Australian continent. As the highest mountain on the Australian continent and thus one of the Seven Summits , the Carstensz Pyramid ( 4884  m ) in New Guinea is usually counted today, especially among alpinists , but Mount Kosciuszko has also been referred to as one of the Seven Summits.

Mount Kosciuszko was named in 1840 by the Polish explorer and first climber Paweł Edmund Strzelecki in honor of the Polish and US national hero Tadeusz Kościuszko .

The mountain is surrounded by Kosciuszko National Park , which is the largest in New South Wales with an area of ​​6900 km² and was built to protect Australia's unique alpine flora and fauna.

Not far from Mount Kosciuszko is Mount Townsend, which is only slightly lower at 2209 m . The names Mount Townsend and Mount Kosciuszko were originally assigned to the other mountain. Altitude measurements showed that Mount Kosciuszko, originally thought to be higher, was 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.

From a mountaineering point of view, Mount Kosciuszko is not a challenge, a simple but long hiking trail leads to the summit.

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  Mount Kosciuszko from the south side

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  Mount Etheridge from the south side

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  The east side of the mountain

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  Information board at the summit

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  Monument on the top of the mountain

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  Lake Coopatamba, the highest lake on the Australian continent

literature

• Deirdre Slattery: The Australian Alps. Kosciuszko, Alpine and Namadgi National Parks . University of New South Wales Press, Sydney 1998, ISBN 0-86840-319-9 ( Excerpts online from Google Books [accessed August 5, 2018]).
• Alec Costin, Max Gray, Colin Totterdell, Dane Wimbush: Kosciuszko alpine flora . 2nd Edition. Csiro Publishing, Collingwood 2000, ISBN 0-643-06522-9 ( extracts online from Google Books [accessed August 5, 2018]).

Web links

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

• Mount Kosciuszko Inc Perth Australia (English) (Polish)
• Experiences of an ascent

Individual evidence

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