Mount Townsend (Snowy Mountains)

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Elevation2,209 m (7,247 ft)[1]
Prominence189 m (620 ft)[1]
Isolation3.71 km (2.31 mi)[1]
Mount Townsend
Dawn on Mount Townsend, viewed from Watsons Crags, October 2011.
Highest point
Elevation2,209 m (7,247 ft)[1]
Prominence189 m (620 ft)[1]
Isolation3.71 km (2.31 mi)[1]
ListingSeven Second Summits
Coordinates36°25′21″S 148°15′32″E / 36.42250°S 148.25889°E / -36.42250; 148.25889[2]
Naming
EtymologyThomas Scott Townsend
Geography
Mount Townsend is located in New South Wales
Mount Townsend
Mount Townsend
Location in New South Wales
LocationSnowy Mountains, New South Wales, Australia
Parent rangeMain Range, Great Dividing Range
Topo mapYoungal
Climbing
Easiest routeHike or ski

Mount Townsend is a mountain in the Main Range of the Great Dividing Range, located in the Snowy Mountains region of New South Wales, Australia.

Mount Townsend was named after the eminent surveyor Thomas Scott Townsend,[3] so named in 1885 by Austrian alpinist Robert von Lendenfeld.[4][5]

There was some confusion on the historical identification of the summits named as Mount Kosciuszko and Mount Townsend for some time,[6]:6–8 which was clarified in 1940 by B. T. Dowd,[7] a cartographer and historian of the NSW Lands Department. His study reaffirmed that the mountain named by Strzelecki as Mount Kosciuszko was indeed, as the NSW maps had always shown, Australia's highest summit. When James Macarthur's field book of the historical journey was published in 1941 by C. Daley[8] it further confirmed Dowd's clarification. This means that "Targangil", mentioned in Spencer's 1885 letter to The Sydney Morning Herald,[9] was the Aboriginal Australian name of Mount Townsend, not of Mount Kosciuszko.

Geography

With an elevation of 2,209 metres (7,247 ft) above sea level,[1] Mount Townsend is the second-highest peak of mainland Australia. Located in Kosciuszko National Park, the mountain is 3.68 kilometres (2.29 mi) north of Australia's highest mainland peak, Mount Kosciuszko,[citation needed], with an elevation only 19 m (62 ft) lower.[3][a]

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