Mount Townsend

Mount Townsend
Dawn on Mount Townsend, viewed from Watsons Crags, October 2011.
Highest point
Elevation 2,209 m (7,247 ft) [1]
Prominence 189 m (620 ft) [1]
Isolation 3.71 km (2.31 mi) [1]
Listing Seven Second Summits
Coordinates 36°25′21″S 148°15′32″E / 36.42250°S 148.25889°E / -36.42250; 148.25889Coordinates: 36°25′21″S 148°15′32″E / 36.42250°S 148.25889°E / -36.42250; 148.25889 [2]
Geography
Mount Townsend
Location in New South Wales
Location Snowy Mountains, New South Wales, Australia
Parent range Main Range, Great Dividing Range
Topo map Youngal
Climbing
Easiest route Hike or ski

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. Located in Kosciuszko National Park, the mountain is 3.68 kilometres (2.29 mi) north of Australia's highest mainland peak, Mount Kosciuszko.

Although lower than Mount Kosciuszko, Mount Townsend has a more craggy peak and is arguably more dominant than the relatively round-topped Mount Kosciuszko.

The confusion about swapping the names of Mt Kosciuszko and Mt Townsend was straightened out in 1940 by B. T. Dowd [3], a cartographer and historian of the NSW Lands Department. His study reaffirmed that the mountain named by Strzelecki as Mt Kosciuszko was indeed, as the NSW maps had always shown, Australia’s highest summit. When Macarthur’s field book of the historical journey was published in 1941 by C. Daley [4] it further confirmed Dowd’s clarification. This means that Targangil, mentioned in Spencer’s 1885 article [5] , was the indigenous name of Mt Townsend, not of Mt Kosciuszko.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Mount Townsend". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 22 July 2012.
  2. ↑ "Mount Townsend". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales. Retrieved 27 May 2015.
  3. ↑ Dowd, B.T. The Cartography of Mount Kosciusko. Royal Australian Historical Society. Journal & Proceedings, vol. 26, part I, pp. 97-107
  4. ↑ C. Daley Count Paul Strzelecki’s Ascent of Mt Kosciusko and Journey through Gippsland The Victorian Historical Magazine, vol.19, no 2, pp. 41-53, 1941
  5. ↑ " M. Spencer The Highest Point in Australia The Sydney Morning Herald, February 18, 1885",



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