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This included identifying Australia’s highest summit, which Strzelecki reached on 12 March 1840. [9] [10] Mount Kosciusko, seen from the Victorian border (Mount Hope Ranges) - the mountain range as depicted by Eugene von Guerard, 1866 North-east view from the northern top of Mount Kosciusko - Eugene von Guerard, 1863
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.
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.
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Mount Kosciuszko. Carruthers Peak on the Main Range. The view from Mount Tate, looking towards Guthega. 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)
However, the highest mountain on the Australian continent, which includes Australia and New Guinea, is Puncak Jaya (Carstensz Pyramid), 4,884 m (16,024 ft) above sea level, [a] in the Indonesian province of Central Papua on the island of New Guinea, which shares the Sahul continental shelf with Australia. Mount Kosciuszko is considerably easier ...
The section of the Great Dividing Range between the Ramshead Range and Dicky Cooper Bogong in the Snowy Mountains is known as the Main Range. It can also be used more generally for the peaks (not necessarily on the Great Dividing Range) on or on short spurs off the range. It contains many of the highest peaks in mainland Australia. Some peaks ...