Roys Peak is a mountain in New Zealand, standing between

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and Glendhu Bay. It offers a full-day's walk with views across

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and up to the peak of

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, ...

. The track zigzags steeply up the side of Mount Roy through thick grass until the ridge to the summit. The peak was named in honour of the Scottish hero

Rob Roy MacGregor Robert Roy MacGregor (; 7 March 1671 – 28 December 1734) was a Jacobite Scottish outlaw, who later became a Scottish and Jacobite folk hero. Early life He was born in the Kingdom of Scotland at Glengyle, at the head of Loch Katrine, as r ...

by early settlers.

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Mountains of Otago Queenstown-Lakes District Southern Alps {{Otago-geo-stub

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