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Mt Kosciusko, Highest Mountain in Australia.
2,228 meters (7,310 feet)

Mount Kosciusko holds several accolades. It is the highest mountain in Kosciusko National park, the highest mountain in New South Wales, the highest mountain in the Snowy Mountains, and is the highest mountain in all of Australia. Kosciusko is part of the Great Dividing Range which straddles the state boundaries of Victoria and New South Wales. It is located half-way (280 miles/450km from each) between Sydney and Melbourne in Southeastern Australia.

First scaled by Polish explorer Paul Edmund Strzelecki in 1840, Strzelecki named the peak after its similarity to the tomb of the Polish patriot Kosciuszko. The aboriginal name for the peak is Tar Gan Gil. Other nearby peaks include Townsend, Carruthers, and Twynam, which along with Kosciuszko form the backbone of the main range and forms the backdrop of Australia's only glacial lakes.(source summitpost.org)

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