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Mitre Peak

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Mitre Peak

Countless images have been made of 1,700-metre Mitre Peak since tourists started visiting Milford Sound in the late 1890s. This Tourist and Publicity Department poster dates from the mid-1970s.

Poster courtesy of Tourism New Zealand

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: Eph-D-TOURISM-1975-02

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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How to cite this page

David Grant, Southland places – Milford Sound and north, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/ephemera/20228/mitre-peak (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by David Grant, published 2 March 2009, updated 25 May 2015.