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The NSW Department of Mines discovered Lendenfeld's mistake and assigned the name Mount Townsend to the second-highest mountain of the range. Lendenfeld's announcement created further confusion. When Lendenfeld's mistake was corrected, a popular legend was created that the established names of the two mountains were swapped rather than re ...
Mountains located within the Snowy Mountains in New South Wales Mount Kosciuszko , at 2,228 metres (7,310 ft) [ 24 ] (Highest mountain on the mainland) Mount Townsend , at 2,209 metres (7,247 ft) [ 25 ] (Second highest mountain on the mainland)
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.
According to the Messner list, Puncak Mandala (4,760 m) on New Guinea is the second highest of the Australian continent. [1] [4] Heights of mountain peaks in West Papua are poorly established, and Puncak Trikora has been listed as the second-highest summit on the island, but SRTM data do support a higher elevation for Mandala.
While Mt McClintock (3,490 m (11,450 ft)) is located within the claimed Australian Antarctic Territory and is also claimed as Australia's highest peak, it is again not in Oceania. [14] If excluding the island of New Guinea, then Aoraki / Mount Cook on the South Island of New Zealand is the highest mountain in Australasia at 3,724 m (12,218 ft).
Aoraki / Mount Cook, New Zealand 3724 m 12,218 ft Lake Eyre, Australia −15 m −49 ft: 3739 m 12,267 ft ⦁ Australia: Mount Kosciuszko, Australia 2228 m 7,310 ft Lake Eyre, Australia −15 m −49 ft: 2243 m 7,359 ft ⦁ Melanesia: Puncak Jaya, New Guinea, Indonesia: 4884 m 16,024 ft Pacific Ocean sea level 4884 m
Aoraki / Mount Cook, located in New Zealand's South Island, is the highest point in the country. The following are lists of mountains in New Zealand [a] ordered by height. . Names, heights, topographic prominence and isolation, and coordinates were extracted from the official Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) Topo50 topographic maps at the interactive topographic map of New Zealand
Mount Kosciuszko is the highest point of the continent and the Commonwealth of Australia. Mont Orohena is the apex of Tahiti and the highest point in French Polynesia . The active shield volcano Mauna Loa on the Island of Hawaiʻi is the most voluminous mountain on Earth .