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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 .
Mount Townsend (Snowy Mountains) in New South Wales, Australia Mount Townsend (Washington) in the Olympic Mountains, Washington, USA Topics referred to by the same term
Peak Absolute height (m) Topographic prominence (m) Prominence parent State Location 1 Mount Kosciuszko: 2,228 2,228 none — HP Australia: NSW HP New South Wales, Snowy Mountains
The approach was made from Geehi Valley. After climbing Hannel’s Spur, the peak now named Mount Townsend was reached. Here Strzelecki used his instruments to make observations. Mt Townsend is Australia's second highest mountain, adjacent to and almost the same height as Mt Kosciuszko, and Strzelecki saw that the neighbouring peak was slightly ...
height: 66.5 m (72.7 yd); width: 116.8 m (127.7 yd) ... Collection: National Gallery of Australia ; Native name: National Gallery of Australia ... Description=1863 ...
Instead, the Australian Alps consist of a high plateau, with significantly softer rolling hills spread across a long, wide plateau that was lifted thousands of feet up by the movement of magma when Gondwana began to break up between 130 and 160 million years ago. The highest peak in the Australian Alps is Mount Kosciuszko (2,228 metres (7,310 ft)).
Today, Thredbo has 14 ski-lifts and possesses Australia's longest ski resort run, the 5.9 km from Karel's T-Bar to Friday Flat; Australia's greatest vertical drop of 672 m; and the highest lifted point in Australia at 2037 m. [15] [16] The last establishment of a major skifield in NSW came with the development of Mount Blue Cow in the 1980s.
It contains many of the highest peaks in mainland Australia. Some peaks on the Main Range include (from the south): The Ramsheads; Mount Kosciuszko; Muellers Peak; Mount Townsend, Mount Alice Rawson and Abbotts Peak (on Abbotts Ridge) Mount Northcote, Mount Clark and Mount Lee; Carruthers Peak; Mount Twynam and Little Twynam; Mount Anton and ...