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The original Ngāi Tahu inhabitants called the mountains Kawarau, [3] and gave the same name to the Kawarau River which starts beneath them. The mountains were named The Remarkables by Alexander Garvie in 1857–58 [4] because of the serrated peaks of the range. The range was earlier known as the Crosscuts for the same reason.
Mount Remarkable is a mountain in South Australia located in the Flinders Ranges about 250 kilometres (160 mi) north of the centre of the capital city of Adelaide and immediately north-west of the town of Melrose, which was once named Mount Remarkable itself, and which is located at its base. [1] The mountain has a height of 961 metres (3,153 ...
Slieve League or Slieve Liag [3] (Irish: Sliabh Liag, meaning 'mountain of stone pillars') [4] is a mountain on the Atlantic coast of County Donegal, Ireland. At 601 metres (1,972 ft), it has the second-highest sea cliffs in Ireland after Croaghaun, [5] and some of the highest sea cliffs in Europe. Belfast naturalist Robert Lloyd Praeger wrote ...
The Maumturks or Maamturks (Irish: Sléibhte Mhám Toirc; mountains of the boar's pass) [b] is a mountain range in Connemara, [c] County Galway, in the west of Ireland.It is a long, broadly-straight range, consisting of weathered quartzite peaks in its central section.
This is a list of mountains in the Australian Capital Territory. It includes all mountains with a gazetted name. This list is complete with respect to the 1996 Gazetteer of Australia. [1] Dubious names have been checked against the online 2004 data, [2] and in all cases confirmed correct. However, if any mountains have been gazetted or deleted ...
The Mullaghareirk Mountains (from Irish: Mullach an Radhairc, meaning 'the summit of the view') [1] is a range of hills in Ireland on the borders of County Cork, County Kerry and County Limerick. The area is also known as Sliabh Luachra (sometimes anglicised 'Slieve Logher'). The highest point is Baraveha (Barr an Bheithe) at 451 metres (1,480 ...
The author defined them as all hills within the boundary of the Lake District National Park in Cumbria which are over 1,000 feet (304.8 m) in height. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Bill Birkett's book became a popular list for peak bagging in the Lake District, along with the more popular Wainwrights . [ 4 ]
The term "sub-Marilyn" or "sub-HuMP" is used, e.g. in the Database of British and Irish Hills to indicate hills that fall just below the threshold. To qualify for inclusion, hills must either be 200 metres or higher with a prominence of at least 30 metres, below 200 metres with a prominence of at least 90 metres (the threshold for a sub-HuMP ...