Story: Mountaineering

South Island peaks

Roll over the labels on the map to display the heights of the major peaks in the Southern Alps, the dates of their first ascents, and the names of the mountaineers who made them.

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Source: Hugh Logan, Great peaks of New Zealand. Dunedin: John McIndoe, 1990

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John Wilson, 'Mountaineering - Beyond the central Southern Alps', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/interactive/10493/south-island-peaks (accessed 29 March 2024)

Story by John Wilson, published 24 Sep 2007, updated 1 Feb 2017