Cecil Peak is a mountain in the
Wakatipu Basin
The Wakatipu Basin is a plain surrounded by mountains in Queenstown Lakes District, in the southern South Island of New Zealand.
At the south west corner is found the Queenstown suburb of Frankton, Otago, Frankton and Queenstown Airport. This ...
,
New Zealand
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and reaches a height of 1,978 metres. It is on the south side of
Lake Wakatipu
Lake Wakatipu () is an inland lake (finger lake) in the South Island of New Zealand. It is in the southwest corner of the Otago region, near its boundary with Southland, New Zealand, Southland. ''Lake Wakatipu'' comes from the original Māori l ...
south-southwest of
Queenstown, and is prominent within the area.
Vegetation is mainly grass and tussock (as it is under a pastoral lease) with trees near the waterline.
Hidden Island is one of four islands in Lake Wakatipu and sits very close to the shoreline of Cecil Peak.
On 27 March 2010 a local band performed an outdoor concert in a natural amphitheatre on the peak playing songs from the band
Pink Floyd
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.
Name
Both Cecil Peak and the nearby mountain of
Walter Peak were named after
William Rees' eldest sons' first given names by the 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 ...
in 1862.
See also
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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 thint ...
*
Walter Peak
References
Mountains of Otago
Queenstown-Lakes District
Southern Alps
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