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Kōrero: National parks

Mitre Peak

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Mitre Peak

Mitre Peak, at the head of Milford Sound in Fiordland National Park, is one of New Zealand’s most famous tourist attractions. Named because it is shaped like a bishop’s mitre (head-dress), it rises almost sheer above the sound to a height of 1,695 metres.

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Otago Daily Times

Reference: 12 February 2007, p. 4

by Craig Baxter

Permission of the Otago Daily Times must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Nancy Swarbrick, National parks – Lower South Island parks, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/14480/mitre-peak (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Nancy Swarbrick, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009, updated 1 August 2015.