The following are lists of mountains in

New Zealand New Zealand () is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and List of islands of New Zealand, over 600 smaller islands. It is the List of isla ...

ordered by height. Names, heights,

topographic prominence In topography, prominence or relative height (also referred to as autonomous height, and shoulder drop in US English, and drop in British English) measures the height of a mountain or hill's summit relative to the lowest contour line encircling ...

and isolation, and coordinates were extracted from the official

Land Information New Zealand Land Information New Zealand (LINZ; ) is the public service department of New Zealand charged with geographical information and surveying functions as well as handling land titles, and managing Crown land and property. The minister responsible ...

(LINZ) Topo50 topographic maps at th
interactive topographic map of New Zealand
site. Mountains are referred to as ''maunga'' in the

Māori language Māori (; endonym: 'the Māori language', commonly shortened to ) is an Eastern Polynesian languages, Eastern Polynesian language and the language of the Māori people, the indigenous population of mainland New Zealand. The southernmost membe ...

Named summits over 2,900 m

All summits over are within the

Southern Alps The Southern Alps (; officially Southern Alps / Kā Tiritiri o te Moana) are a mountain range extending along much of the length of New Zealand, New Zealand's South Island, reaching its greatest elevations near the range's western side. The n ...

, a chain that forms the backbone of the

South Island The South Island ( , 'the waters of Pounamu, Greenstone') is the largest of the three major islands of New Zealand by surface area, the others being the smaller but more populous North Island and Stewart Island. It is bordered to the north by ...

, and all but one (

Mount Aspiring / Tititea Mount Aspiring / Tititea is New Zealand's 23rd-highest mountain. The peak's altitude of makes it the country's highest outside the Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park region. Names Māori named it ''Tititea'', after a chief of the Waitaha iwi, ...

) are within a radius of

Aoraki / Mount Cook Aoraki / Mount Cook is the highest mountain in New Zealand. Its height, , is listed as . It is situated in the Southern Alps, the mountain range that runs the length of the South Island. A popular tourist destination, it is also a favourite ch ...

. Some of these summits are mere shoulders on the ridges of Aoraki and

Mount Tasman Mount Tasman (''Te Horokōau'' in Māori) is New Zealand's second-highest mountain, rising to a height of . It is located in the Southern Alps of the South Island, four kilometres to the north of its larger neighbour, Aoraki / Mount Cook. Unli ...

. 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 has three individual peaks that are all above that height.

The 100 highest mountains

These are all the mountains over with a

(drop) of at least , closely matching those on th
list of mountains of New Zealand
by the

New Zealand Alpine Club The New Zealand Alpine Club (NZAC), is a national climbing organisation in New Zealand. It was founded 1891 and is one of the oldest alpine clubs in the world. NZAC was one of many founding members of International Climbing and Mountaineering ...

. Five peaks overlooked on that list are indicated with an asterisk. Of these 100 mountains, all but two — Ruapehu (Tahurangi Peak) (19th highest) and

Mount Taranaki Mount Taranaki (), officially Taranaki Maunga and also known as Mount Egmont, is a dormant stratovolcano in the Taranaki region on the west coast of New Zealand's North Island. At , it is the second highest mountain in the North Island, afte ...

(65th highest) — are in the

Tapuae-o-Uenuku Tapuae-o-Uenuku, formerly Mount Tapuaenuku, is the highest peak in the northeast of New Zealand's South Island. The name translates from Māori as "footprint of the rainbow", though is usually regarded as being named after Chief Tapuaenuku. A ...

, in the

Kaikōura Ranges The Kaikōura Ranges are two parallel ranges of mountains located in the Canterbury Region in the northeast of the South Island of New Zealand. The two ranges are visible from a great distance, including from the southern coast of the North Isla ...

, is the highest peak outside the

Other notable mountains and hills

Over 2,000 metres

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The Footstool The Footstool is a mountain in the Canterbury Region of New Zealand. Description The Footstool is situated on the crest or Main Divide of the Southern Alps, and set on the common boundary shared by the Canterbury and West Coast Regions of Sou ...

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Mount Rudolf Mount Rudolf is a mountain in New Zealand. Description Mount Rudolf is set on the crest or Main Divide of the Southern Alps and is situated on the boundary shared by the West Coast and Canterbury Regions of the South Island. This peak is loc ...

– * Te Heuheu – - highest peak in the north of the crater rim of Mount Ruapehu *

Mount Thomson Mount Thomson is a prominent mountain summit in eastern King County of Washington state. Description Mount Thomson is part of the Cascade Range and is a half-mile east of the crest of the range. Thomson is situated northeast of Snoqualmie P ...

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Mount Jervois Mount Jervois is a mountain in New Zealand. Description Mount Jervois is set on the crest or Main Divide of the Southern Alps and is situated on the boundary shared by the West Coast and Canterbury Regions of the South Island. This peak is l ...

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North Peak North Peak is a summit in the U.S. state of Nevada Nevada ( ; ) is a landlocked state in the Western United States. It borders Oregon to the northwest, Idaho to the northeast, California to the west, Arizona to the southeast, and Utah t ...

– * Mount Isabel – * Glentanner Peak – * Pluto Peak – *

Mount Cran Mount Cran is a mountain in Canterbury, New Zealand. Description Mount Cran is set in the Ben Ohau Range of the Southern Alps and is situated in the Canterbury Region of the South Island. This peak is located south of Mount Cook Village. Pre ...

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Mount Edgar Thomson Mount Edgar Thomson is a mountain in the Canterbury Region of New Zealand. Description Mount Edgar Thomson is set in the Ben Ohau Range of the Southern Alps and is situated in the Canterbury Region of South Island. This peak is located south ...

– * Mount Ross – *

Mount Alba Mount Alba is a mountain in New Zealand. Description Mount Alba is set on the crest or Main Divide of the Southern Alps and is situated on the common boundary shared by Otago and West Coast Regions of South Island. This remote peak is located ...

– * Mount Bonpland – *Turner Peak – *

Mount Franklin (Tasman) Mount Franklin is a peak in the Nelson Lakes National Park in the Tasman Region of New Zealand. It is the northernmost – and highest – of New Zealand's four Mounts Franklin, located south of Lake Rotoroa. It is the highest peak in the Tasm ...

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Mount Travers Mount is often used as part of the name of specific mountains, e.g. Mount Everest. Mount or Mounts may also refer to: Places * Mount, Cornwall, a village in Warleggan parish, England * Mount, Perranzabuloe, a hamlet in Perranzabuloe parish, C ...

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Du Faur Peak Du Faur Peak is a mountain in New Zealand. Description Du Faur Peak is situated on the crest or Main Divide of the Southern Alps and set on the common boundary shared by the Canterbury Region, Canterbury and West Coast Regions of the South Is ...

– * Double Cone – *

Te Wera Peak Te Wera Peak, also known as Mount Te Wera, is a mountain in Fiordland, New Zealand. Description Te Wera Peak is the fourth-highest peak of the Darran Mountains. It is situated in the Southland Region of the South Island, and set within Fiordl ...

– * Mount Tūwhakarōria – * Pyramid Peak – *

Somnus In Roman mythology, Somnus ("sleep") is the personification of sleep. His Greek counterpart is Hypnos. Somnus resided in the underworld. According to Virgil, Somnus was the brother of Death ( Mors), and according to Ovid, Somnus had a 'thousand' ...

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Mount Ngauruhoe Mount Ngauruhoe () is a volcanic cone in New Zealand. It is the youngest vent in the Mount Tongariro, Tongariro stratovolcano complex on the Central Plateau, New Zealand, Central Plateau of the North Island and first erupted about 2,500 y ...

– * Mount Davie – * Mount Hopeless – *

Mount Rolleston Mount Rolleston (2,271 m) is a prominent peak in Arthur's Pass National Park in the South Island of New Zealand. It was named by the surveyor Arthur Dudley Dobson in 1864, who observed the peak while searching for a route through the South ...

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Mount Crosscut Mount Crosscut is a mountain in Fiordland, New Zealand. Description Mount Crosscut is part of the Darran Mountains and is situated in the Southland Region of South Island. It is set within Fiordland National Park which is part of the Te Wahip ...

– * Mount Aurum – *

Taiaha Peak Taiaha Peak is a mountain in the Canterbury Region of New Zealand. Description Taiaha Peak is located southwest of Christchurch in the South Island. It is set in the Elcho–Huxley Mountains of the Southern Alps. Precipitation runoff from th ...

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Faerie Queene ''The Faerie Queene'' is an English Epic poetry, epic poem by Edmund Spenser. Books IIII were first published in 1590, then republished in 1596 together with books IVVI. ''The Faerie Queene'' is notable for its form: at over 36,000 lines and ov ...

– * Poseidon Peak – *

Mount Harper Mount Harper is a deeply eroded Proterozoic, Late Proterozoic volcanic complex located north of Dawson City, Yukon, Dawson City and west of Mount Gibben. Mount Harper is in the Ogilvie Mountains and is the thick remnant of a subaqueous-to-eme ...

– * Mount Underwood – * Gloriana Peak – * Mount Paske – * Mount Adams – *

Karetai Peak Karetai Peak is a mountain in Fiordland, New Zealand. Description Karetai Peak is part of the Darran Mountains and it is situated nine kilometres east of Milford Sound in the Southland Region of the South Island. It is set within Fiordland Na ...

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Mount Awful Mount Awful is a mountain in Otago, New Zealand. Description Mount Awful is located 15 kilometres northwest of the community of Makarora in the Southern Alps of the South Island. It is set within Mount Aspiring National Park which is part of ...

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Mount Hutt Mount Hutt () rises to the west of the Canterbury Plains in the South Island of New Zealand, above the braided upper reaches of the Rakaia River, and 80 kilometres west of Christchurch. Its summit is 2190 metres above sea level. The New Zeala ...

– * Ngatimamoe Peak – * Mount Gizeh – *

Sabre Peak Sabre Peak is a mountain in Fiordland, New Zealand. Description Sabre Peak is part of the Darran Mountains and is situated in the Southland Region of the South Island. It is set within Fiordland National Park which is part of the Te Wahi ...

– * Mount Rosa – *

Alice Peak Alice Peak is a mountain in Fiordland, New Zealand. Description Alice Peak is part of the Darran Mountains and is situated in the Southland Region of the South Island. It is set within Fiordland National Park which is part of the Te Wahipoun ...

– * Mount Turner – *

Mount Franklin (Canterbury) Mount Franklin is located northeast of Arthur's Pass, and is the second tallest of the New Zealand mountains with this name. It forms part of the ridge of the Southern Alps. As such, it is located close to the border between the Canterbury, N ...

– * Mount Cloudsley – *

Mount Talbot Mount Talbot is located on the northern side of Shale Pass on the Alberta-British Columbia border. It was officially named on 4 November 1925 after Senator Peter Talbot (1854-1919), an early pioneer of the Lacombe region of central Alberta. A ...

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Dobson Peak Dobson may refer to: People : ''For a listing of people with the surname "Dobson", see Dobson (surname).'' Places * Dobson High School in Arizona, US * Dobson, Mississippi, a ghost town in Rankin County, Mississippi, US * Dobson, North Carolina, U ...

– * Mount Suter – *

Mount Olympus Mount Olympus (, , ) is an extensive massif near the Thermaic Gulf of the Aegean Sea, located on the border between Thessaly and Macedonia (Greece), Macedonia, between the regional units of Larissa (regional unit), Larissa and Pieria (regional ...

– * David Peaks – *

Tuhawaiki Mountain Tuhawaiki Mountain, also known as Mount Tuhawaiki, is a mountain in Fiordland, New Zealand. Description Tuhawaiki Mountain is part of the Darran Mountains. It is situated in the Southland Region of South Island, and set within Fiordland Natio ...

– * Mount Macfarlane – * Tooth Peak – *

Mount Oates Mount Oates is a mountain located north of the Hooker Icefield, on the border of Alberta and British Columbia British Columbia is the westernmost Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Canada. Situated in the Pacific Northwest bet ...

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Mount Gunn Staten Island Heights () is a predominantly flat, ice-covered upland between Greenville Valley and Alatna Valley in the Convoy Range of Victoria Land, Antarctica. Exploration and naming Staten Island Heights were mapped by the United States Geo ...

– * Mount Guinevere – * Thesis Peak – * Mount Wilson – * Mount Damfool – * Mount Dreadful – *

Jane Peak Jane Peak is a conspicuous nunatak, high, standing west of the northern part of Borge Bay on Signy Island, in the South Orkney Islands. It was roughly surveyed in 1933 by Discovery Investigations personnel, and resurveyed in 1947 by the Falkla ...

– * Mount Scott –

1,000 to 2,000 metres

* Castle Hill Peak – * Mount Chaos – * Mount Elliot – *

Mount Tongariro Mount Tongariro (; ) is a compound volcano in the Taupō Volcanic Zone of the North Island of New Zealand. It is located to the southwest of Lake Taupō, and is the northernmost of the three active volcanoes that dominate the landscape of ...

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Cecil Peak Cecil Peak is a mountain in the Wakatipu Basin, New Zealand and reaches a height of 1,978 metres. It is on the south side of Lake Wakatipu south-southwest of Queenstown, and is prominent within the area. Vegetation is mainly grass and tussock ...

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Jean Batten Peak Jean Batten Peak is a mountain summit in Otago, New Zealand. Description Jean Batten Peak is part of the Ailsa Mountains and is situated west of Glenorchy in the Otago Region of the South Island. Precipitation runoff from the mountain's nor ...

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Mount Belle Mount Belle is a mountain in Fiordland, New Zealand. Description Mount Belle is part of the Wick Mountains and is situated above the east portal of Homer Tunnel in the Southland Region of the South Island. It is set within Fiordland National ...

– * Mount Moir – * Phipps Peak – *

Mount Pisa Mount is often used as part of the name of specific mountains, e.g. Mount Everest. Mount or Mounts may also refer to: Places * Mount, Cornwall, a village in Warleggan parish, England * Mount, Perranzabuloe, a hamlet in Perranzabuloe parish, C ...

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Dome A dome () is an architectural element similar to the hollow upper half of a sphere. There is significant overlap with the term cupola, which may also refer to a dome or a structure on top of a dome. The precise definition of a dome has been a m ...

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Mount Cardrona Mount Cardrona in Central Otago, New Zealand is 1,936 metres (6,352 feet) high, and is most easily accessed from the Cardrona Ski Field. Mount Cardrona is in the Crown Range between Wānaka Wānaka () is a popular ski and summer resort ...

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Mount Stewart Mount Stewart is a 19th-century house and garden in County Down, Northern Ireland, owned by the National Trust. Situated on the east shore of Strangford Lough, a few miles outside the town of Newtownards and near Greyabbey, it was the Iris ...

– * Mount Ollivier – *

Benmore Peak Benmore Peak is the highest point of the Benmore Range, an island range located in the southern half of the Mackenzie Basin, South Island, New Zealand. The 28 km (17½ mile) by Benmore Range is aligned approximately north–south an ...

( Benmore Range) – (site of Benmore Peak Observatory) *

Blimit Blimit is a mountain in the Canterbury Region of New Zealand. Description Blimit is located north-northeast of Arthur's Pass in Arthur's Pass National Park and is set in the Southern Alps of the South Island. Precipitation runoff from the mo ...

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Falling Mountain Falling Mountain is a mountain in New Zealand. Description Falling Mountain is located northwest of Christchurch on the boundary of Arthur's Pass National Park. It is set along the crest or Main Divide of the Southern Alps and is situated on ...

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Mount Lyttle Mount Lyttle is an mountain in Fiordland, New Zealand. Description Mount Lyttle is part of the Darran Mountains and is situated in the Southland Region of the South Island. It is set within Fiordland National Park which is part of the Te Wahi ...

– * Mount Owen – * Mount Eglinton – *

Mount Balloon Mount Balloon is an mountain in Fiordland, New Zealand. Description Mount Balloon is part of the Wick Mountains and is situated in the Southland Region of the South Island. It is set within Fiordland National Park which is part of the Te Wahi ...

– * Sutherlands Peak ( Benmore Range) – *

Mount Bealey Mount Bealey is an mountain in the Canterbury Region of New Zealand. Description Mount Bealey is located southwest of Arthur's Pass in Arthur's Pass National Park. It is set in the Southern Alps of the South Island. Precipitation runoff from ...

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Mills Peak The Deep Freeze Range () is a rugged mountain range, over long and about wide, rising between Priestley Glacier, Priestley and Campbell Glacier, Campbell Glaciers in Victoria Land, Antarctica, and extending from the edge of the polar plateau to ...

– * Totara Peak ( Benmore Range) – *

Odyssey Peak Odyssey Peak is an mountain in Fiordland, New Zealand. Description Odyssey Peak is part of the Sheerdown Hills in the Wick Mountains, where it is situated five kilometres south of Milford Sound in the Southland Region of the South Island. It ...

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Mount Foweraker Mount Foweraker is an mountain in the Canterbury Region of New Zealand. Description Mount Foweraker is located northwest of Christchurch in Arthur's Pass National Park in the South Island. It is part of the Polar Range of the Southern Alps. ...

– * Walter Peak – * Mount Arthur – * Coronation Peak– *

Mount Hikurangi (Gisborne District) Mount Hikurangi (or ''Te Ara ki Hikurangi'' in Māori) is a peak in the eastern corner of New Zealand's North Island, about north of Gisborne, and southwest of the East Cape Lighthouse. On a spur of the Raukumara Range in the Waiapu Valle ...

– (highest peak in the North Island, excluding volcanoes) *

Ben Lomond Ben Lomond (, ), , is a mountain in the Scottish Highlands. Situated on the eastern shore of Loch Lomond, it is the most southerly of the Munros. Ben Lomond lies within the Ben Lomond National Memorial Park and the Loch Lomond and The Trossach ...

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Mount Peel Mount Peel is a mountain located in South Canterbury, New Zealand. It consists of three peaks, Mount Peel (often referred to as Big Mount Peel), Middle Mount Peel () and Little Mount Peel / Huatekerekere (). Mount Peel is tall and is owned by ...

– * Mount Mangaweka – (second highest peak in the North Island, excluding volcanoes) *

Kaweka J Kaweka J, also known as Mount Kaweka, is the highest mountain in the Kaweka Range. Situated in the central North Island of New Zealand, it has a total height of . The mountain is the highest point in the Hawke's Bay Hawke's Bay () is a re ...

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Kaweka Range The Kaweka Range (also known as the ''Kaweka Ranges'') of mountains is located in inland Hawke's Bay in the eastern North Island (Te Ika-a-Māui) of New Zealand. It forms part of the mountainous spine of the North Island which extends from Welli ...

) – * Mount Axford – * Mount Williams – * Brown Peak,

Sturge Island Sturge Island is one of the three main islands in the uninhabited Balleny Islands group located in the Southern Ocean. It lies southeast of Buckle Island and north-east of Belousov Point on the Antarctic mainland. The island, in Oates Land, al ...

(subantarctic island) – or *

Mount Winterslow Mount is often used as part of the name of specific mountains, e.g. Mount Everest. Mount or Mounts may also refer to: Places * Mount, Cornwall, a village in Warleggan parish, England * Mount, Perranzabuloe, a hamlet in Perranzabuloe parish, Co ...

– * Mitre Peak – * Mount Somers / Te Kiekie – * Purple Hill (Lake Pearson, above Waimakariri Valley) – * Mount Pisgah – (highest peak of the

Kakanui Range The Kakanui Range (or Kakanui Mountains) is a range of high hills located inland from Oamaru in the South Island of New Zealand. The range forms a boundary between the valley of the Waitaki River to the north and the high plateau known as the ...

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Roys Peak Roys Peak is a mountain in New Zealand, standing between Wānaka and Glendhu Bay. It offers a full-day's walk with views across Lake Wānaka and up to the peak of Mount Aspiring / Tititea. The track zigzags steeply up the side of Mount Roy thr ...

– * The Mitre (

Tararua Range The Tararua Range, often referred to as the Tararua Ranges or Tararua, is one of several mountain ranges in the North Island of New Zealand. The Tararua Range runs northeast–southwest for from near Palmerston North to the upper reaches of ...

) – * Mount Hector (

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) – * Hauhungatahi – * Mount Danae – * Mount Lyndon – * Mid Dome – * Mount Luxmore – * Mount Holdsworth (

) – * The Cairn ( Benmore Range) – *

Summit Peak ''For the mountain in California formerly named Summit Peak, see Mount Ina Coolbrith.'' Summit Peak, elevation , sits on the Continental Divide in southern Colorado. The mountain is the highest point in the South San Juan Wilderness. See also ...

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Rock and Pillar Range The Rock and Pillar Range (), is a range of high hills is located in the Maniototo, an area of inland Otago, New Zealand. The range is surrounded on three sides by the Taieri River, which has its source in the Lammerlaw Range. The river flows ...

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Mount Philipps Mount Philipps is a mountain in Fiordland, New Zealand. Description Mount Philipps is situated above Milford Sound in the Southland Region of the South Island. It is set within Fiordland National Park which is part of the Te Wahipounamu UNES ...

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Mount Arowhana Mount Arowhana is a mountain that is part of the backbone of the Raukumara Range in the northeast of New Zealand's North Island. The range forms part of a line of mountains extending along the eastern side of the North Island between the Gisb ...

– * Jumbo Peak (

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Pouākai The (also spelled ) is a monstrous bird in Māori mythology. Mythologies In some of these legends, the Pouākai kills and eats humans. The myth may refer to the real but now extinct Haast's eagle: the largest known eagle species, which was abl ...

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Pouākai Range The Pouākai Range is an eroded and heavily vegetated stratovolcano in the North Island of New Zealand, located northwest of Mount Taranaki. It consists of the remains of a collapsed Pleistocene stratovolcano. The range is surrounded by a ring ...

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Mount Alfred Mount Alfred is a mountain located at the Queen Reach arm and head of the Jervis Inlet within the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains in British Columbia, Canada. The mountain is the highest in the portion of the mainland between Jervis and T ...

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Young Island Young Island () is the northernmost and westernmost of the three main islands in the uninhabited Balleny Islands group located in the Southern Ocean. It lies northwest of Buckle Island, some north-northeast of Belousov Point on the Antarct ...

(subantarctic island) – * Mount Isobel (Hanmer, South Island) – * The Buscot ( Benmore Range) – *

Buckle Island Buckle Island is one of the three main islands in the uninhabited Balleny Islands group located in the Southern Ocean. It lies north-west of Sturge Island and south-east of Young Island, some north-north-east of Belousov Point on the Ant ...

(subantarctic island) – * Mount Noble – * Mount Te Kinga – *

Mount Grono Mount Grono (), previously spelled Mount Groznoz, is a peak on Secretary Island, part of New Zealand's Fiordland National Park. It was named for early 19th century sealer John Grono. Mount Grono is the highest peak in New Zealand's main is ...

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Secretary Island Secretary Island () is an island in southwestern New Zealand, lying entirely within Fiordland National Park. Roughly triangular in shape, it lies between Doubtful Sound / Patea in the south and Te Awa-o-Tū / Thompson Sound in the north, with ...

) – (highest peak in main New Zealand chain not in the North or South Island) * Mount Pureora – *

Mount Tarawera Mount Tarawera is a volcano on the North Island of New Zealand within the older but volcanically productive Ōkataina Caldera. Located 24 kilometres southeast of Rotorua, it consists of a series of rhyolitic lava domes that were fissured ...

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Mount Tauhara Mount Tauhara is a dormant lava dome volcano in New Zealand's North Island, reaching above sea level. It is situated in the area of caldera rim overlap of the Whakamaru Caldera and Taupō Volcano towards the centre of the Taupō Volcanic Zone ...

– * Mount John – (site of

Mount John University Observatory University of Canterbury Mount John Observatory (UCMJO), previously known as Mt John University Observatory (MJUO), is New Zealand's premier astronomical research observatory. It is situated at Above mean sea level, ASL atop Mount John at th ...

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Mount Thomas Mount Thomas is the fictional town featured in the long-running Australian police procedural drama ''Blue Heelers'', which ran from 1994 up until its cancelation in 2006. The program was filmed in Victorian suburbs of Werribee, Williamstown ...

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Under 1,000 metres

* Mount Ross – (highest point in the

Aorangi Range The Aorangi Range (previously known as the Haurangi Range) is a mountain range on the North Island of New Zealand. It is located in the Wairarapa The Wairarapa (; ), a geographical region of New Zealand, lies in the south-eastern corner ...

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Mount Anglem / Hananui Mount Anglem / Hananui is the highest point on New Zealand's Stewart Island / Rakiura. It is located northwest of Oban, close to the island's north coast, and rises to an elevation of above sea level. Following the passage of the Ngāi Tahu C ...

– (highest peak on

Stewart Island / Rakiura Stewart Island (, 'Aurora, glowing skies', officially Stewart Island / Rakiura, formerly New Leinster) is New Zealand's third-largest island, located south of the South Island, across Foveaux Strait. It is a roughly triangular island wit ...

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Mount Pirongia Mount Pirongia is an extinct stratovolcano located in the Waikato region of New Zealand's North Island. It rises to and is the highest peak around the Waikato plains. Pirongia's many peaks are basaltic cones created by successive volcanic erup ...

– * Mount Te Aroha – (highest point in the

Kaimai Range The Kaimai Range (sometimes referred to as the ''Kaimai Ranges'') is a mountain range in the North Island of New Zealand. It is part of a series of ranges, with the Coromandel Range to the north and the Mamaku Ranges to the south. The Kaimai ...

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Mount Matthews Mount Matthews is the highest peak in the Remutaka Range to the east of Wellington, New Zealand. Mt Matthews reaches a height of 940 metres and although not special on that account, it has significance in regard to its distinctive aspect as seen ...

– (highest peak in

Rimutaka Range The Remutaka Range (also spelt Rimutaka Range) is the southernmost range of a mountain chain in the lower North Island of New Zealand. The chain continues north into the Tararua, then Ruahine Ranges, running parallel with the east coast bet ...

) * Mount Herbert (Te Ahu Patiki) – (highest point on

Banks Peninsula Banks Peninsula () is a rocky peninsula on the east coast of the South Island of New Zealand that was formed by two now-extinct volcanoes. It has an area of approximately . It includes two large deep-water harbours — Lyttelton Harbour a ...

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Wharite Peak Wharite Peak is a mountain at the southern end of the Ruahine Range, north of Woodville, New Zealand, Woodville in the Manawatū-Whanganui region of New Zealand. The mountain is home to the main television and FM radio transmitter for the city ...

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Queenstown Hill Queenstown Hill, also known by its Māori name of Te Tapu-nui (mountain of intense sacredness), is a small mountain near Queenstown, New Zealand in the South Island. The lower levels of the hill contain housing especially near Queenstown, Fra ...

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Maungatua Maungatua, known also as Mauka Atua is a prominent ridge in the Taieri Plains in Otago, New Zealand. It rises above the floodplain of the Taieri River, directly to the west of Dunedin's airport at Momona. It can be clearly seen from much of ...

– * Moehau – (highest point on the

Coromandel Peninsula The Coromandel Peninsula () on the North Island of New Zealand extends north from the western end of the Bay of Plenty, forming a natural barrier protecting the Hauraki Gulf and the Firth of Thames in the west from the Pacific Ocean ...

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Mount Graham Mount Graham (called in Nnee biyati' (Western Apache) Dził Nchaa Sí'an – 'Big Seated Mountain') is a mountain in Graham County, Arizona, United States, approximately northeast of Tucson. The mountain reaches in height. It is the highest ...

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Putauaki Putauaki (; also known in English as Mount Edgecumbe) is a dacite volcanic cone in the Bay of Plenty Region of New Zealand. Located east of Rotorua and three kilometres east of Kawerau, it is the easternmost vent of the Taupō Volcanic Zone ...

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Maungatautari Maungatautari is a mountain near Cambridge in the Waikato region in New Zealand's central North Island. The mountain is an extinct stratovolcano. It is a prominent peak and is visible across the Waipa District. The mountain is the site of Sanc ...

– (site of the

Maungatautari Restoration Project Sanctuary Mountain Maungatautari, is a protected natural area in Waikato Region, New Zealand where the biodiversity of 3,400 ha of forest is being restored. The sanctuary covers the mountain peak, Maungatautari. Most of New Zealand's ecosyst ...

) * Te Raupua – (highest point in Northland) *

Tutamoe Tutamoe is the second highest mountain in Northland Region, Northland, New Zealand, with a height of . It is located in the Kaihu Forest, approximately 20 kilometres north of Dargaville. Historically, the slopes of Tutamoe were densely foreste ...

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Tākaka Hill Tākaka Hill, previously also referred to as Marble Mountain, is a range of hills in the northwest of the South Island of New Zealand. Made of marble that has weathered into many strange forms and with numerous sinkholes, it is typical karst cou ...

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Ngongotahā Ngongotahā is a small settlement on the western shores of Lake Rotorua in the North Island of New Zealand. It is located northwest of the Rotorua central business district, and is considered as a suburb of Rotorua. It is part of the Rotorua ...

– * Mount Karioi – (overlooks Raglan) * Swampy Summit – (highest remnant of the

Dunedin Volcano The Dunedin Volcano is an extensively eroded multi-vent shield volcano that was active between 16 and 10 million years ago. It originally extended from the modern city of Dunedin, New Zealand to Aramoana about 25 km away. Extensive erosion ...

) *Mount Hauturu on

Little Barrier Island Little Barrier Island, or Hauturu in Māori language, Māori (the official Māori title is ''Te Hauturu-o-Toi''), lies off the northeastern coast of New Zealand's North Island. Located to the north of Auckland, the island is separated from the ...

– (highest point in the

Auckland Region Auckland () is one of the 16 regions of New Zealand, which takes its name from the eponymous urban areas of New Zealand, urban area. The region encompasses the Auckland, Auckland metropolitan area, smaller towns, rural areas, and the islands o ...

) * Mount Wainui – (highest peak in

Akatarawa Forest Akatarawa Forest is a regional park in the Upper Hutt within the Wellington Region at the southern tip of the North Island of New Zealand. It encompasses 15,000 hectares of native and plantation forest. It includes the headwaters of the Maungako ...

) * Mount Pye – (highest point in

The Catlins The Catlins (sometimes referred to as The Catlins Coast) comprise an area in the southeastern corner of the South Island of New Zealand. The area lies between Balclutha, New Zealand, Balclutha and Invercargill, straddling the boundary between ...

) * Mount McKerrow – *

Mount Dick Mount Dick is a 705-metre (2313 ft) peak on Adams Island, the second-largest of New Zealand New Zealand () is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the ...

– (highest point in the

Auckland Islands The Auckland Islands ( Māori: ''Motu Maha'' "Many islands" or ''Maungahuka'' "Snowy mountains") are an archipelago of New Zealand, lying south of the South Island. The main Auckland Island, occupying , is surrounded by smaller Adams Island ...

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Kohukohunui The Hunua Ranges is a mountain range and regional park to the southeast of Auckland city, in the Auckland and Waikato regions of New Zealand's North Island. The ranges cover some and rise to 688 metres (2255 ft) at Kohukohunui.

(highest point in the

Hunua Ranges The Hunua Ranges is a mountain range and regional park to the southeast of Auckland city, in the Auckland and Waikato regions of New Zealand's North Island. The ranges cover some and rise to 688 metres (2255 ft) at Kohukohunui.

) – * Patuha (New Zealand) (highest point in the

Kaitake Range The Kaitake Range, like the neighbouring Pouākai Range, is an eroded and heavily vegetated stratovolcano that formed during the Pleistocene epoch in the Taranaki region of New Zealand. Kaitake is the northwesternmost of the stratovolcanoes in ...

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Mount Cargill Mount Cargill, known in Māori as ,Place names'' on Kāti Huirapa Runaka ki Puketeraki website, viewed 4 January 2012 is a volcanic outcrop which dominates the skyline of northern Dunedin, New Zealand. The peak is named for Captain Willia ...

– * Flagstaff (Dunedin) – * Mount Clime – *Kahurānaki – Hawkes Bay Region * Mount Hikurangi (Northland) – * Mount Hobson (highest point on

Great Barrier Island Great Barrier Island () lies in the outer Hauraki Gulf, New Zealand, north-east of central Auckland. With an area of it is the sixth-largest List of islands of New Zealand, island of New Zealand. Its highest point, Mount Hobson, Great Barrier ...

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Hokonui Hills The Hokonui Hills, also known as ''The Hokonui Mountains'' or simply ''The Hokonui'', are a range of hills in central Southland, New Zealand. They rise to 600 metres above the surrounding Southland Plains, of which the hills mark a northern ext ...

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Mount Honey Mount Honey is the highest point on Campbell Island, New Zealand, Campbell Island, the southernmost of New Zealand's subantarctic New Zealand Outlying Islands, outlying islands. It is located to the south of Perseverance Harbour, a long later ...

( Campbell Island) – * Mount Karangahake (

Hauraki District Hauraki District is a territorial authority governed by the Hauraki District Council within the Waikato region of New Zealand. The seat of the council is at Paeroa. The area covered by the district extends from the southwest coast of the Firt ...

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Castle Rock Castle Rock may refer to: Geography Islands * Castle Rock (Alaska), an island off the coast of the U.S. state of Alaska * Castle Rock, Hong Kong, an island of Hong Kong, part of the Po Toi Islands * Castle Rock (Massachusetts), an island in th ...

in the

Coromandel Range The Coromandel Range is a volcanic mountain range in the Coromandel Volcanic Zone running the length of the Coromandel Peninsula in the North Island of New Zealand. It is located east of the city of Auckland, and runs north–south for approx ...

– * Moumoukai – (highest point in the

Kermadec Islands The Kermadec Islands ( ; ) are a subtropical island arc in the South Pacific Ocean northeast of New Zealand's North Island, and a similar distance southwest of Tonga. The islands are part of New Zealand. They are in total area and uninhabit ...

, on

Raoul Island Raoul Island (''Sunday Island''; ) is the largest and northernmost of the main Kermadec Islands, south south-west of 'Ata Island of Tonga and north north-east of New Zealand's North Island. It has been the source of vigorous volcanic activit ...

) * Hawkins Hill, Wellington – * Te Heru o Kahukura / Sugarloaf (Christchurch) – *

Kohinurākau Kohinurākau or Kōhinerākau (also known as Mount Erin) is a mountain in the Kohinurākau Range, south-southwest of Havelock North in the Hawke's Bay region of New Zealand. The mountain is the main television and FM radio transmitter site fo ...

(Hastings) – * Te Toiokawharu (highest point in the

Waitākere Ranges The Waitākere Ranges is a mountain range in New Zealand. Located in West Auckland, New Zealand, West Auckland between metropolitan Auckland and the Tasman Sea, the ranges and its foothills and coasts comprise some of public and private land. ...

) – * Saddle Hill (Dunedin) – * Rangituhi / Colonial Knob (

Porirua Porirua, () a list of cities in New Zealand, city in the Wellington Region of the North Island of New Zealand, is one of the four cities that constitute the Wellington#Wellington metropolitan area, Wellington metropolitan area. The name 'Poriru ...

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Kakepuku Kakepuku (Te Kakepuku ō Kahu) is a volcanic cone that rises from the plain between the Waipā and Puniu rivers, about NW of Te Kawa and SW of Te Awamutu in the Waikato region of New Zealand's North Island. History Kakepuku was named Te K ...

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Mount Kaukau Mount Kaukau () is a large hill in the northern suburbs of Wellington, New Zealand near Johnsonville, Khandallah and Ngaio. The summit is above sea level and is the most visible high point in the Wellington landscape further accentuated by ...

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Ruaotuwhenua Ruaotuwhenua is a hill in the Waitākere Ranges of the Auckland Region of New Zealand's North Island. At , it is one of the tallest of the Waitākere Ranges, and the tallest of the eastern ranges adjacent to Auckland. The peak is the location o ...

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, Auckland) – * Mount Charles – (highest point on the

Otago Peninsula The Otago Peninsula () is a long, hilly indented finger of land that forms the easternmost part of Dunedin, New Zealand. Volcanic in origin, it forms one wall of the eroded valley that now forms Otago Harbour. The peninsula lies south-east of Ot ...

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Mount Manaia Mount Manaia is a dominant landmark approximately southeast of Whangārei city on the Whangārei Heads peninsula. Standing 420 metres, the summit offers outstanding views of the Marsden Point Oil Refinery, Bream Bay and the Hauraki Gulf t ...

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Te Mata Peak Te Mata Peak is a peak south of Hastings rising up to 399m in the Te Mata Hills in the Hawke's Bay region of New Zealand. A sealed road leads to the popular lookout at the summit, as well as many trails for hikers and mountain bikers. The Hasti ...

(Hastings) – * Signal Hill (Dunedin) – *

Mayor Island / Tuhua In many countries, a mayor is the highest-ranking official in a municipal government such as that of a city or a town. Worldwide, there is a wide variance in local laws and customs regarding the powers and responsibilities of a mayor as well as ...

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Pukematekeo Pukematekeo is a hill in the Waitākere Ranges of the Auckland Region of New Zealand's North Island. It is located west of Henderson, and is the northernmost hill in the Waitākere Ranges Regional Park. Description The hill is a 336-metre ...

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, Auckland) – *

Whakaari / White Island Whakaari / White Island (, , lit. "the dramatic volcano"), also known as White Island or Whakaari, is an active andesite stratovolcano situated from the east coast of the North Island of New Zealand, in the Bay of Plenty. The island covers a ...

– * Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu – * Te Ahumairangi – * Brooklyn Hill (Wellington) – * Maungatere Hill – (highest named point in the

Chatham Islands The Chatham Islands ( ; Moriori language, Moriori: , 'Misty Sun'; ) are an archipelago in the Pacific Ocean about east of New Zealand's South Island, administered as part of New Zealand, and consisting of about 10 islands within an approxima ...

) * Mangere – (highest point on

Mangere Island Mangere Island (Moriori: ) is part of the Chatham Islands archipelago, located about east of New Zealand's South Island and has an area of . The island lies off the west coast of Pitt Island, south-east of the main settlement in the Chathams, ...

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Bluff Hill / Motupohue Bluff (), previously known as Campbelltown and often referred to as "The Bluff", is a town and seaport in the Southland region, on the southern coast of the South Island of New Zealand serving as the main port of Invercargill. It is the south ...

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Rangitoto Island Rangitoto Island is a volcanic island in the Hauraki Gulf near Auckland, New Zealand. The wide island is a symmetrical shield volcano cone capped by central scoria cones, reaching a height of . Rangitoto is the youngest and largest of the appr ...

– * Maunganui (Waiheke Island) – *

Mount Maunganui Mount Maunganui (, ) is a major residential, commercial and industrial suburb of Tauranga located on a peninsula to the north-east of Tauranga's city centre. It was an independent town from Tauranga until the completion of the Tauranga Harb ...

– * Mount Victoria (Wellington) – *

Maungawhau / Mount Eden Maungawhau / Mount Eden is a scoria cone and '' Tūpuna Maunga'' (ancestral mountain) in Mount Eden, Auckland, New Zealand. The cone is part of the Auckland volcanic field, the tallest located on the isthmus. Geography The cone is a dormant vol ...

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Maungakiekie / One Tree Hill Maungakiekie / One Tree Hill is a volcano, volcanic peak and Tūpuna Maunga o Tāmaki Makaurau, Tūpuna Maunga (ancestral mountain) in Auckland, New Zealand. It is an important place culturally and archeologically for both Māori people, Māo ...

(Auckland) – * Paritutu (New Plymouth) – *

Mount Wellington Mount Wellington may refer to: Mountains * Mount Wellington (British Columbia), in Canada * Mount Wellington (New York), in Otsego County, New York, United States * Mount Wellington (Tasmania), in Tasmania, Australia * Mount Wellington (Victoria) ...

(Auckland) – * Mount Albert (Auckland) – * Roys Hill (Hastings) – *

Mount Roskill Mount Roskill () is a suburban area in the city of Auckland, New Zealand. It is named for the volcanic peak Mount Roskill. Etymology The name Mount Roskill was first recorded as Mt Rascal in 1841, on a map created by a Wesleyan missionary, ...

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Māngere Mountain Māngere Mountain, also known by the names Te Pane-o-Mataaho and Te Ara Pueru, is a volcanic cone in Māngere, Auckland. Located within Māngere Domain, it is one of the largest volcanic cones in the Auckland volcanic field, with a peak above ...

– * Bluff Hill (Napier) –

Historical perspective

Prior to the introduction of the metric system in New Zealand, the mountains regarded as tall were those over . Lists of mountains or peaks by height have over the decades been published by the New Zealand government in its official yearbook. The 1920–21 edition was the first to contain a list of mountains and it had six of them at over 10,000 feet. This table remained the same in the two subsequent editions until 1924, when the secretary of the

had provided a fuller list of 16 mountains: In the 1931 yearbook,

Torres Peak Torres Peak is a mountain in the Southern Alps of New Zealand, and is part of Westland Tai Poutini National Park. It is located to the north of Aoraki / Mount Cook, close to Mount Tasman, of which it is a secondary peak. It is largely surround ...

was added to that list. Andy Anderson was the first to climb all 17 mountains by late December 1950. The 1931 list remained unchanged until the late 1950s, and was used as the starting point by mountaineer Gordon Hasell (1933–2018) to compile an amended list. Not all the mountains had been officially surveyed and Hasell added 12 new ones to the list that he considered likely to also reach the 10,000 feet mark and deleted 2 (De la Beche and The Minarets), making a total of 27 peaks. This list was published in the 1957 edition of the ''New Zealand Alpine Journal'' and stood for the next 25 years. It is shown here as published in geographical order from north-east to south-west.

Footnotes

References

External links

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Mountains of New Zealand
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Mountains A mountain is an elevated portion of the Earth's crust, generally with steep sides that show significant exposed bedrock. Although definitions vary, a mountain may differ from a plateau in having a limited summit area, and is usually higher ...