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Aoraki / Mount Cook, located in New Zealand's South Island, is the highest point in the country. The following are lists of mountains in New Zealand [a] ordered by height. . Names, heights, topographic prominence and isolation, and coordinates were extracted from the official Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) Topo50 topographic maps at the interactive topographic map of New Zealand
Mount Tasman (Te Horokōau in Māori) [1] [2] is New Zealand's second-highest mountain, rising to a height of 3,497 metres (11,473 ft). It is located in the Southern Alps of the South Island, four kilometres to the north of its larger neighbour, Aoraki / Mount Cook.
Glentanner Peak is located 228 kilometres (142 mi) southwest of Christchurch and set between the Dobson Valley and Lake Pukaki in the South Island. It is the second-highest peak in the Ben Ohau Range of the Southern Alps. [3] Precipitation runoff from the mountain drains east into Lake Pukaki and west into the Dobson River.
Tutamoe is the second highest mountain in Northland, New Zealand, with a height of 770 metres (2,530 ft). [1] [2] It is located in the Kaihu Forest, approximately 20 kilometres north of Dargaville. [3] [4] [5] Historically, the slopes of Tutamoe were densely forested with kauri trees (Agathis australis).
Mount Taranaki (Māori: Taranaki Maunga), formerly Mount Egmont, is a dormant stratovolcano and legal person in the Taranaki region on the west coast of New Zealand's North Island. [5] [6] [7] At 2,518 metres (8,261 ft), it is the second highest mountain in the North Island, after Mount Ruapehu.
Mount Allen is the second-highest peak on Stewart Island in southern New Zealand. Located in the southwest of the island, it lies 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) from the coast at Port Pegasus. Mount Allen rises to a height of 750 metres (2,460 ft) and is the highest point in a short range of hills known as Tin Range. [1]
Castle Hill Peak is the highest summit of the Torlesse Range which is a subrange of the Southern Alps. [3] [4] It is situated 70 kilometres (43 mi) west-northwest of the city of Christchurch and set on the boundary of Korowai / Torlesse Tussocklands Park. [5] It is the second-highest peak in the Selwyn District of the Canterbury Region of South ...
Aoraki / Mount Cook [a] is the highest mountain in New Zealand.Its height, as of 2014, is listed as 3,724 metres (12,218 feet). [2] It is situated in the Southern Alps, the mountain range that runs the length of the South Island.