The Hunter Mountains of

Lake Manapouri Lake Manapouri is located in the South Island of New Zealand. The lake is situated within the Fiordland National Park and the wider region of Te Wahipounamu South West New Zealand World Heritage Area. Māori History According to Māori legend ...

, New Zealand, were named by surveyor

James McKerrow James McKerrow FRAS (7 July 1834 – 29 June 1919) was an astronomer, Surveyor-General of New Zealand, and Chief Commissioner of Railways in New Zealand. McKerrow was the son of Andrew McKerrow and Margaret (''née'' Steven) his wife, and was ...

after the famous anatomist John Hunter. The Hunter Mountain Range covers an area between The South Arm and Hope Arm of

South to the Green Lake. The Hunters contains several impressive peaks,

Cone Peak Cone Peak is the second highest mountain in the Santa Lucia Range in the Ventana Wilderness of the Los Padres National Forest. It rises nearly a vertical mile only from the coast as the crow flies. This is one of the steepest gradients from ...

, Mount Moturau, Mount Crescent, Mt Burns, Eldrig Peak, the Highest Named Point is Mt Flat, the highest point is an unnamed peak at the head of the Garnoch Burn. Mount Moturau is accessible Via the Bicycle spur track from Hope Arm and Mt Burns is very accessible Via the Borland Saddle Road, built through

Fiordland National Park Fiordland National Park occupies the southwest corner of the South Island of New Zealand. It is by far the largest of the 13 national parks in New Zealand, with an area of , and a major part of the Te Wahipounamu World Heritage Site. The park ...

in the 1960s for the construction of the power pylons and power pines for the Manapouri Hydroelectric Power Station, and is open to the public throughout the summer months.

Fauna

Giant Snails known as '' Powelliphanta spedeni'' are found in the Green Lake area of the Hunter Mountains. The skink species '' Oligosoma nigriplantare polychroma'' (related to the Chatham Islands skink) inhabit the tussock grasslands areas from

Lake Monowai Lake Monowai (officially Monowai Lake; mi, Manokīwai) is a large lake () in the southern part of Fiordland National Park, in New Zealand's South Island, 120 kilometres northwest of Invercargill. At an altitude of 180 metres in a long curved vall ...

. The Short Horned Grasshopper '' Alpinacris tumidicauda'' ranges throughout the Hunter Mountains. The

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found else ...

moth species '' Pyrgotis consentiens'' and '' Proteodes clarkei'' are found in the Hunter Mountains.

References

* Neville Peat and Brian Patrick. 1996 "Wild Fiordland", published by University of Otago Press, * John Hall-Jones. 1983 "Pioneers of Te Anau", published by Craig Printing Co Ltd, {{coord, 45, 42, S, 167, 25, E, display=title, region:NZ_type:mountain_source:GNS-enwiki Mountain ranges of Fiordland