Mount Kosciuszko
About Mount Kosciuszko
Mount Kosciuszko is the highest mountain of mainland Australia, at 2,228 metres (7,310 ft) above sea level. It is located on the Main Range of the Snowy Mountains in Kosciuszko National Park, a part of the Australian Alps National Parks and Reserves, in New South Wales, and is located west of Crackenback and close to Jindabyne, near the border with Victoria. Mount Kosciuszko is ranked 35th by topographic isolation.
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The thing was for years and years it was called Mount Kozikusko and it was this wonderful mountain. Basically they discovered, and this was explained in a 1910 book, that they eventually started recalculating the sizes and heights of mountains and discovered that a mountain just near Mount Kozikusko called Mount Townsend was actually taller. Suddenly we had a new tallest mountain and rather than changing all the books, they just decided this is going to be a massive hassle.
from 104: No Such Thing As A Herd Of Koalas, 2016-03-11 at 00:29:03 · read transcript
Coordinates: -36.4557, 148.2634