Mount Townsend

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Mount Townsend
Dawn on Mount Townsend, viewed from Watsons Crags, October 2011.
Elevation	2,209 m (7,247 ft) AHD ^[1]
Prominence	189 m (620 ft)^[1]
Listing	Seven Second Summits
Location
Mount Townsend Location in New South Wales
Location	New South Wales, Australia
Range	Snowy Mountains
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^[1]
Climbing
Easiest route	Hike or ski

Mount Townsend is the second highest peak of mainland Australia. Located in Kosciuszko National Park in the Snowy Mountains (part of the Great Dividing Range), Mount Townsend 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. Due to ease of climbing Mount Kosciuszko, and the much lower accessibility of Mount Townsend, a tradition has emerged of each person who climbs Mount Townsend carrying a rock from the bottom in their pack, and leaving it at the top, with the goal of making Mount Townsend the taller of the two relatively similar in height peaks.

The names of Mount Townsend and Mount Kosciuszko were originally attached to the other mountains. Measurements of the peaks originally called by those names showed Kosciuszko to be slightly lower than its neighbour, and rather than re-educating the populace that the highest mountain was Mount Townsend, the names were transposed by the New South Wales Lands Department, so that Mount Kosciuszko was renamed Townsend and vice-versa.^[2]

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Mount Townsend". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 2012-07-22.
↑ "Mountain systems of Australia". Year Book Australia, 1901-1909. Australian Bureau of Statistics.

External links

Peakbagger.com: Mount Townsend

v t e Seven Second Summits

Asia	K2 (8,611 m or 28,251 ft)

South America	Ojos del Salado (6,893 m or 22,615 ft)

North America	Mount Logan (5,959 m or 19,551 ft)

Europe	Dykh-Tau (5,205 m or 17,077 ft) or Monte Rosa (4,634 m or 15,203 ft)

Africa	Mount Kenya (5,199 m or 17,057 ft)

Antarctica	Mount Tyree (4,852 m or 15,919 ft)

Australia (continent)	Puncak Mandala (4,760 m or 15,617 ft)

Australia	Mount Townsend (2,209 m or 7,247 ft)

v t e Snowy River Shire, New South Wales, Australia

Townships and Villages	Adaminaby Berridale Thredbo Village Tyrolean

Localities and rural places	Anglers Reach Arable Avonside Beloka Blue Cow Mountain Bobundara Braemar Bay Buckenderra Bullocks Flat Charlotte Pass Coolringdon Cootralantra Crackenback Dalgety Dry Plain East Jindabyne Eucumbene Cove Frying Pan Grosses Plain Guthega Hill Top Ingebirah Ironmungy Jimenbuen Jindabyne Kalkite Middlingbank Moonbah Myalla Nimmo Numbla Vale Old Adaminaby Paupong Perisher Valley Pine Valley Providence Portal Rhine Falls Rocky Plain Snowy Plain The Brothers Wambrook

National parks	Kosciuszko

Rivers and other watercourses	Berrima Burrungubugge Cooma Back Eucumbene Goorudee Gungarlin Ingeegoodbee Jacobs Little Thredbo Mowamba Pinch Snowy River Thredbo

Dams and/or associated reservoirs	Eucumbene Guthega Island Bend Jindabyne Jounama Rainbow Lake Three Mile

Mountain ranges	Snowy Mountains Charcoal Rams Head Suggan Buggan

Attractions	Alpine Way Barry Way Big Trout Blue Lake Friday Flat Camp Kiandra Lake Albina Lake Cootapatamba Mount Kosciuszko Mount Townsend Perisher Ski Resort Selwyn Snowfields Skitube Alpine Railway Smiggin Holes Snowy Mountains Highway Snowy Scheme Museum

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