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Dun Fiunary
Dun Fiunary is a mountain in the Canterbury Region of New Zealand. Description Dun Fiunary is located southwest of Christchurch in the Ruataniwha Conservation Park. The peak is set between the Dobson Valley and Lake Pukaki in the Ben Ohau Range of the Southern Alps. Precipitation runoff from the mountain drains east into Lake Pukaki whereas the west slope drains into the Dobson River. Topographic relief is significant as the summit rises above the Dobson Valley in four kilometres. The nearest higher peak is Glentanner Peak, four kilometres to the north. The mountain's toponym comes from the Scottish traditional song, ''Farewell to Fiunary'', specifically the line, "And viewed the sun's departing ray wand'ring o'er Dun Fiunary." "Dun" is a nut-brown colour and "Fiunary" is a coastal town in the Scottish Highlands. The song was written by Rev. Dr. Norman MacLeod. Climbing Climbing routes with first ascents: [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Mountains Of New Zealand By Height
The following are lists of mountains in New Zealand ordered by height. Names, heights, topographic prominence and isolation, and coordinates were extracted from the official Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) Topo50 topographic maps at thinteractive topographic map of New Zealandsite. Mountains are referred to as ''maunga'' in the Māori language. Named summits over 2,900 m All summits over are within the Southern Alps, a chain that forms the backbone of the South Island, and all but one ( Mount Aspiring / Tititea) are within a radius of Aoraki / Mount Cook. Some of these summits are mere shoulders on the ridges of Aoraki and Mount Tasman. Gordon Hasell was the first person who, by 1960, had climbed all New Zealand's peaks above . The achievement mentions 27 peaks and it thus counts individual peaks that may make up one mountain, e.g. Mount Haast (Westland District), Mount Haast has three individual peaks that are all above that height. The 100 highest mountains Thes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
