Mount Townsend

View from Mount Townsend to Mount Kosciuszko

Mount Townsend is the second highest mountain on the mainland of the Australian continent.

It is located about 3.68 km north of the Australian continent from the highest mountain, Mount Kosciuszko. Mount Townsend is located in New South Wales in the Snowy Mountains (part of the Great Dividing Range) and is located in Kosciuszko National Park.

If you reduce the continent on the Australian mainland, Mount Townsend is one of the Seven Second Summits (English for Second Seven Summit ), which summarize each second highest mountains of the seven continents. Summarizing the concept further, then also include the significantly higher Puncak TRIKORA in Indonesia to the continent and would by this view, one of the Seven Second Summits.

The mountain was climbed in 1885 by Robert Lendlmayer of Lendenfeld, who named him after a government official Mr. Townsend.

The name Mount Townsend and Mount Kosciuszko were initially associated with the other mountain. Height measurements showed that the originally held higher Mount Kosciuszko was actually slightly smaller than the 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.