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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 .
Mountains located within New South Wales, but not within a specific mountain range Mount Gibraltar, at 863 metres (2,831 ft) Mount Chincogan at 309 m (1,014 ft) Mount Clayton, at 378 metres (1,240 ft) Mount Alexandra; Mount Jellore; Ninety Acre Hill; Mount Gulaga, at 806 metres (2,644 ft) Mount Oxley, at 307 metres (1,007 ft)
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.
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
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 ...
List of mountain peaks in the Greater Blue Mountains Area: Mount Boyce; Mount Bindo; Mount Trickett; One Tree Hill; Mount Piddington; Mount York; Mount Solitary; Mount Banks; Mount Stormbreaker; Mount Hay, New South Wales; Mount Cloudmaker; Mount Wilson, New South Wales; Mount Irvine; Mount Tomah
Australia's first T-bar lift was installed at Kiandra in 1957, but the ski facilities were finally shifted up the hill to Selwyn Snowfields in 1978. [5] Steeper slopes and more reliable snows lie further to the south and in the 20th century, the focus of recreational skiing in New South Wales shifted southward, to the Mount Kosciuszko region. [6]
The highest mountain in mainland Australia is Mount Kosciuszko, 2,228 metres (7,310 ft) above sea level. 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 ...