Mount Sefton (
Māori: Maukatua) is a mountain in the
Aroarokaehe Range of the
Southern Alps of New Zealand, just south of
Aoraki / Mount Cook. To the south lies
Mount Brunner, and to the north
The Footstool
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The mountain is prominently visible from Mount Cook Village in the Hooker Valley, with Tuckett Glacier flowing down the south-eastern side of the mountain and
Mueller Glacier in the valley below it.
With a height of , Mount Sefton is the 13th-highest peak in the Southern Alps, and the 4th-highest mountain in New Zealand when excluding peaks of little prominence that are closer than a kilometre to a higher peak.
The
Douglas River (formerly known as the Twain River) begins on Mount Sefton.
An early resident, Charles French Pemberton, named the area, whilst the geologist
Julius von Haast named the mountain after
William Sefton Moorhouse, the second
Superintendent of
Canterbury Province.
The Māori name of the mountain is Maukatua, which translates as 'mountain of the gods'.
, with
Matthias Zurbriggen as his guide, completed the first recorded climb to the summit shortly after Christmas 1894.
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