Mount Kosciuszko

Mount Kosciuszko

Mount Kosciuszko [ mæɔnt kɔzi ˌ ɔskəʉ ] (as outdated notation is often found also Mount Kosciusko ) is with 2228 meters the highest mountain on the mainland of the Australian continent. It is located in New South Wales in the Snowy Mountains.

The highest mountain in the territory of Australia is the Mawson Peak ( 2745 m ) on the island Heard, but not part of the Australian continent. As the highest mountain of the Australian continent and therefore one of the Seven Summits usually the Carstensz Pyramid ( 4884 m) is counted in New Guinea today, especially among climbers, but Mount Kosciuszko was sometimes also referred to as one of the Seven Summits.

It was named Mount Kosciuszko in 1840 by the Polish explorer Paweł Edmund Strzelecki and the first to climb in honor of the Polish and American national hero Tadeusz Kościuszko.

Surrounded is the mountain from the Kosciuszko National Park, which is an extension of 6,900 km ², the largest in New South Wales and was built to protect Australia's unique alpine flora and fauna.

Not far from the Mount Kosciuszko is the 2209 m with only slightly smaller Mount Townsend. The name Mount Townsend and Mt Kosciuszko were initially associated with the other mountain. Height measurements showed that the originally smaller for higher -held Mount Kosciuszko than Mount Townsend. In order for the Mount Kosciuszko still could remain the high mountain, exchanged the New South Wales Lands Department the names of both peaks.

Mountaineering Risch of Mount Kosciuszko is not a challenge, a simple, yet long trail leads to the summit.

Pictures

Mount Etheridge from the south side

The east side of the mountain

Information board at the summit

Monument on the top of the mountain

Coopatamba Lake, the highest lake of the Australian continent