MOUNT KOSCIUSZKO
When traveling the Southern Highlands
the temptation to get to the top of Mount Kosciuszko presents. There
are a number of options, the Charlottes Pass
to the summit taking the most time. The walk is not arduous and is a
comfortable 5 hour return trip (walking the 19k’s). Climbing from 1800
to 2228 mtrs.
It was named by the Polish
explorer Count Paul Edmund Strzelecki in 1840, in honour of the Polish
national hero and hero of the American Revolutionary War General
Tadeusz Kościuszko, because of its perceived resemblance to the
Kościuszko Mound in Krakow.
Various measurements of the
peak originally called Kosciuszko showed it to be slightly lower than
its neighbour, Mount Townsend. The names of the mountains were swapped
by the New South Wales Lands Department, so that Mount Kosciuszko
remains the name of the highest peak of Australia, and Mount Townsend
ranks as second.
Here are some photos of the
day on the mountain.
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