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The traditional English pronunciation of Kosciuszko is / ˌ k ɒ z i ˈ ʌ s k oʊ / KOZ-ee-US-koh, but the pronunciation / k ɒ ˈ ʃ ʊ ʃ k oʊ / kosh-UUSH-koh is now sometimes used, [18] which is substantially closer to the Polish pronunciation [kɔɕˈt͡ɕuʂkɔ] ⓘ kosh-CHYUUSH-koh.
The Kosciuszko National Park (/ ˌ k ɒ z i ˈ ʌ s k oʊ / KOZ-ee-USK-oh) [3] is a 6,900-square-kilometre (2,700 sq mi) national park and contains mainland Australia's highest peak, Mount Kosciuszko, for which it is named, and Cabramurra, the highest town in Australia.
Each year in December, an ultramarathon running race called Coast to Kosciuszko (aka C2K) ascends to the top of Mt Kosciuszko after starting 246 kilometres (153 mi) away from the beach. Its first year was in 2004 and Paul Every pioneered the race. For starters, it doesn't belong in that section. There are no references. The writing is a little ...
Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages. Sometimes a well-known namesake with the same spelling has a markedly different pronunciation. These are known as heterophonic names or heterophones (unlike heterographs , which are written differently but pronounced the same).
In 1840, after climbing and naming Australia's highest mountain Mount Kosciuszko, he journeyed further south into Gippsland. Heading towards Port Phillip Bay, his party entered the north-eastern end of the Strzelecki Ranges and struggled through the rugged and thick forest for 22 days, before finally emerging starved and exhausted at Corinella ...
Josephine Flood argued, on the basis of a note in Alfred William Howitt, that they were attested as far south as the upper Murray site of Kauwambal between Mount Kosciuszko and Mount Cobberas, which would place their summer camping somewhat west of the Djilamatang. [2]
Andrzej Tadeusz Bonawentura Kościuszko [note 1] (English: Andrew Thaddeus Bonaventure Kosciuszko; [note 2] 4 or 12 February 1746 – 15 October 1817) was a Polish military engineer, statesman, and military leader who then became a national hero in Poland, the United States, Lithuania, and Belarus.
Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania has a Polish Falcons Sportsman's Club named after Kosciuszko. In Grand Rapids, Michigan, there is a club called Kosciuszko Hall. Hamtramck, Michigan, has a Kosciuszko Middle School; Winona, Minnesota has Washington-Kosciuszko Elementary School; School in East Chicago. There is also a Polish school named after ...