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Mount Townsend
Dawn on Mount Townsend, viewed from Watsons Crags, October 2011.
Highest point
Elevation2,209 m (7,247 ft)[1]
Prominence189 m (620 ft)[1]
Isolation3.71 km (2.31 mi)[1]
ListingSeven Second Summits
Geography
Mount Townsend is located in New South Wales
Mount Townsend
Mount Townsend
Location in New South Wales
LocationSnowy Mountains, New South Wales, Australia
Parent rangeMain Range, Great Dividing Range
Topo mapYoungal
Climbing
Easiest routeHike or ski

Mount Townsend, a mountain in the Main Range of the Great Dividing Range, is located in the Snowy Mountains region of New South Wales, Australia.

With an elevation of 2,209 metres (7,247 ft) above sea level,[1] Mount Townsend is the second highest peak of mainland Australia. Located in Kosciuszko National Park, the mountain is 3.68 kilometres (2.29 mi) north of Australia's highest mainland peak, Mount Kosciuszko.

Although lower than Mount Kosciuszko, Mount Townsend has a more craggy peak and is arguably more dominant than the relatively round-topped Mount Kosciuszko. Due to ease of climbing Mount Kosciuszko, and the much lower accessibility of Mount Townsend, a tradition has emerged of each person who climbs Mount Townsend carrying a rock from the bottom in their pack, and leaving it at the top, with the goal of making Mount Townsend the taller of the two relatively similar in height peaks.

The names of Mount Townsend and Mount Kosciuszko were originally each attached to the other mountain. Measurements of the peaks originally called by those names showed Kosciuszko to be slightly lower than its neighbour, and rather than re-educating the populace that the highest mountain was Mount Townsend, the names were transposed by the New South Wales Lands Department,[when?] so that Mount Kosciuszko was renamed Townsend and vice versa.[3][4]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Mount Townsend". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 22 July 2012.
  2. ^ "Mount Townsend". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales. Retrieved 27 May 2015. Edit this at Wikidata
  3. ^ "Mountain systems of Australia". Year Book Australia, 1901-1909. Australian Bureau of Statistics.
  4. ^ "Mount Kosciuszko - Our Highest Mountain". Web page mtkosciuszko.org.au.



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