Mount Dampier
Appearance
Mount Dampier | |
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![]() Aoraki (middle) and Mount Dampier (right) | |
Highest point | |
Elevation | 3,440 m (11,290 ft) |
Prominence | 92 m (302 ft) |
Coordinates | 43°35′S 170°8′E / 43.583°S 170.133°E |
Naming | |
Native name | Rangiroa (Māori) |
Geography | |
Parent range | Southern Alps |
Climbing | |
First ascent | March 1912, by Freda Du Faur & Peter Graham |
Mount Dampier (Rangiroa in Māori) is New Zealand's third highest mountain, rising to 3,440 metres (11,290 ft). It is located in the Southern Alps, between Mount Hicks and Aoraki / Mount Cook. It is often traversed by climbers en route to the North ridge of Mount Cook. Its Māori name literally means 'long sky' (rangi: sky; roa: long).[1]
The English name was originally Mount Hector, after James Hector, but in Fitzgerald's map of 1896 the peak had been renamed after William Dampier.[2]
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- ^ Reed, A. W. (2010). Peter Dowling (ed.). Place Names of New Zealand. Rosedale, North Shore: Raupo. p. 97. ISBN 9780143204107.
- ^ Riley, Gerald (1967). "Mount Cook National Park Place Names and their Origin". New Zealand Alpine Journal. 22: 110–133.