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Mt Townsend is Australia's second highest mountain, adjacent to and almost the same height as Mt Kosciuszko, and Strzelecki saw that the neighbouring peak was slightly higher. In the presence of Macarthur he named the higher summit Mount Kosciusko after the famous Polish-Lithuanian military leader who died in 1817.
Rank Country Highest point Elevation 5 Australia Mount Kosciuszko: 2,228 m (7,310 ft) [1] 10 Federated States of Micronesia Nanlaud: 782 m (2,566 ft) 8 Fiji Mount Tomanivi ...
The following is a list of mountains and prominent hills in the Australian Capital Territory in order, from the highest peak to the lowest peak, for those mountains and hills with an elevation above 750 metres (2,460 ft) AHD:
The Kosciuszko National Park (/ ˌ k ɒ z i ˈ ʌ s k oʊ / KOZ-ee-USK-oh) [3] is a 6,900-square-kilometre (2,700 sq mi) national park and contains mainland Australia's highest peak, Mount Kosciuszko, for which it is named, and Cabramurra, the highest town in Australia.
Mount Bogong, / ˈ b oʊ ɡ ɒ ŋ / located in the Alpine National Park and part of the Victorian Alps of the Great Dividing Range, is the highest mountain in Victoria, Australia, at 1,986 metres (6,516 ft) above sea level. [3] [5] The Big River separates the massif of the mountain from the Bogong High Plains to the south.
Mount Zeil (Western Arrernte: Urlatherrke) (1,531 m or 5,023 ft) is a mountain in the Northern Territory of Australia located in the locality of Mount Zeil in the western MacDonnell Ranges. [2] [1] It is the highest peak in the Northern Territory, and the highest peak on the Australian mainland west of the Great Dividing Range. [2]
Unlike the high mountain ranges found in places like the Rockies (highest peak 4,401 m (14,439 ft)), the European Alps (highest peak 4,808 m (15,774 ft)) or the Himalayas (highest peak 8,848 m (29,029 ft)), the Australian Alps were not formed by two continental plates colliding and pushing up the Earth's rocky mantle to form jagged, rocky peaks.
The Eight Summits [1] is the collective name for the eight highest mountain peaks on each of the seven continents (Australia has two entries). It is an alternative name for the " Seven Summits " due to different ways in naming the highest mountain on the continent of Australia .