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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 This page was last edited on 11 ...
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
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 higher. In the presence of Macarthur he named the higher summit Mount Kosciusko after the famous Polish-Lithuanian military leader who died in 1817.
When considering a continent as a continuous landmass surrounded by oceans, mainland Australia would be its own continent, with Mount Kosciuszko (2,228 m (7,310 ft)) and Mount Townsend (2,209 m (7,247 ft)) as its two highest summits.
Height on the other hand simply means elevation of the summit above sea level. Regarding parents, the prominence parent of peak A can be found by dividing the island or region in question into territories, by tracing the runoff from the key col ( mountain pass ) of every peak that is more prominent than peak A.
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.
All of mainland Australia's alpine areas, including its highest mountain, Mount Kosciuszko (2,228 metres or 7,310 feet AHD), are part of this range, called the Main Range. [4] The highest areas in southern New South Wales and eastern Victoria are known as the Australian Alps .