Australia
New South Wales
Snowy Monaro Regional

Mount Kosciuszko

Mount Kosciuszko is the highest mountain of mainland Australia, at 2,228 metres above sea level. It is located on the of the in , a part of the Australian Alps National Parks and Reserves, in , and is located west of Crackenback and close to Jindabyne, near the border with Victoria.
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Photo: 99of9, CC BY-SA 3.0.
  • Type: Peak with an elevation of 2,228 metres
  • Description: highest mountain in the mainland of the Australian continent, located on New South Wales–Victoria border
  • Also known as: “Kunama Namadgi”, “Mount Koschisko”, and “Mount Kosciusko”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Lake Cootapatamba and Seaman’s Hut.

Lake
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a post-glacial tarn in the , New South Wales, Australia. is located at 2,048 metres, which is about 800 metres south of the summit of Mount Kosciuszko, the highest peak in Australia.

Wilderness hut
Photo: Leighblackall, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Seaman's Hut is an alpine hut and memorial located in New South Wales, Australia. It was built following the death of two skiers, W. Laurie Seaman and Evan Hayes in 1928.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Charlotte Pass and Thredbo.

Photo: Pee Tern, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a snow resort and village in the of , Australia. The pass is in the where the Kosciuszko Road crosses Kangaroo Ridge.

Photo: andrewfysh, CC BY 2.0.
is a village and ski resort within in the of . It is located on the Alpine Way and is 1380 metres above sea level.

Mount Kosciuszko

Latitude
-36.45583° or 36° 27′ 21″ south
Longitude
148.26351° or 148° 15′ 49″ east
Elevation
2,228 metres (7,310 feet)
Open location code
4RMCG7V7+MC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 30880145
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­peak
Geo­Names ID
2161031
Wiki­data ID
Q178167
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Mount Kosciuszko” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Mount Kosciuszko”
  • Albanian: “Mali Kosciuszko”
  • Arabic: “جبل كزيسك”
  • Arabic: “جبل كوسيياسكو”
  • Arabic: “كَزْيَسْكُ”
  • Armenian: “Կոսցյուշկո”
  • Asturian: “Monte Kosciuszko”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kostyuşko”
  • Bashkir: “Косцюшко”
  • Basque: “Kosciuszko mendia”
  • Basque: “Tar Gan Gil”
  • Basque: “Targangil”
  • Belarusian: “Гара Касцюшка”
  • Belarusian: “Касцюшка”
  • Belarusian: “Касьцюшка”
  • Bengali: “কস্চিয়স্কো পর্বত”
  • Bhojpuri: “माउंट कोज़ीओस्को”
  • Bosnian: “Mount Kosciuszko”
  • Breton: “Menez Kosciuszko”
  • Bulgarian: “Козиоско”
  • Bulgarian: “Косцюшко”
  • Catalan: “mont Kosciuszko”
  • Catalan: “Mont Kosciuszko”
  • Cebuano: “Mount Kosciusko”
  • Central Kurdish: “چیای کازییسکۆ”
  • Chinese: “哥修斯哥山”
  • Chinese: “科修斯科山”
  • Chinese: “科西阿斯科山”
  • Croatian: “Mount Kosciuszko”
  • Czech: “Mount Kosciusko”
  • Czech: “Mount Kosciuszko”
  • Danish: “Kosciuszko”
  • Danish: “Mount Kosciusko”
  • Danish: “Mount Kosciuszko”
  • Dutch: “Mount Kosciusko”
  • Dutch: “Mount Kosciuszko”
  • Dutch: “Mount Kosciuzko”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جبل كوسيياسكو”
  • Esperanto: “Monto Kosciuszko”
  • Estonian: “Kosciuszko mägi”
  • Estonian: “Mount Kosciuszko”
  • Finnish: “Kosciuszko”
  • Finnish: “Mount Kosciuszko”
  • French: “mont Kosciuszko”
  • French: “Mont Kosciuszko”
  • French: “Mont Kościuszko”
  • Galician: “Monte Kosciuszko”
  • Georgian: “კოსტიუშკო”
  • Georgian: “კოსციუშკო”
  • German: “Mount Kosciusko”
  • German: “Mount Kosciuszko”
  • German: “Mt. Kosciusko”
  • German: “Mt. Kosciuszko”
  • Greek: “Κόσιουσκο”
  • Greek: “Όρος Κοσιούσκο”
  • Hebrew: “הר קוזיאוסקו”
  • Hebrew: “הר קושצ’ושקו”
  • Hebrew: “קוזיאוסקו”
  • Hindi: “कोज़िअस्को पर्वत”
  • Hungarian: “Mount Kosciuszko”
  • Icelandic: “Kosciuszkofjall”
  • Indonesian: “Gunung Kosciusko”
  • Indonesian: “Gunung Kosciuszko”
  • Irish: “Sliabh Kosciuszko”
  • Italian: “Monte Kosciuszko”
  • Japanese: “コシアスコ”
  • Japanese: “コジアスコ”
  • Japanese: “コジアスコ山”
  • Japanese: “コジウスコ”
  • Japanese: “コシウスコ山”
  • Japanese: “コジウスコ山”
  • Japanese: “コジオスコ”
  • Kazakh: “Косцюшко (тау)”
  • Kazakh: “Косцюшко”
  • Kirghiz: “Косцюшко”
  • Korean: “코시치우슈코 산”
  • Korean: “코지어스코산”
  • Korean: “코지오스코 산”
  • Korean: “코지우스코 산”
  • Kurdish: “Çiyayê Kosciuszko”
  • Ladin: “Mount Kosciuszko”
  • Latin: “Mons Kosciuszko”
  • Latvian: “Koscjuško kalns”
  • Lithuanian: “Kosciuškos kalnas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Mount Kosciuszko”
  • Macedonian: “Кошќушко”
  • Malay: “Gunung Kosciuszko”
  • Malayalam: “കോസ്‌സിയുസ്സ്‌കൊ”
  • Mongolian: “Косцюшко уул”
  • Northern Frisian: “Mount Kosciuszko”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mount Kosciusko”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mount Kosciuszko”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mount Kosciuszko”
  • Norwegian: “Mount Kosciuszko”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Mont Kosciuszko”
  • Persian: “چکاد کوزیوسکو”
  • Persian: “قله کوزیوسکو”
  • Persian: “کوه کازیسکو”
  • Persian: “کوهٔ کازیسکو”
  • Polish: “Góra Kościuszki”
  • Polish: “Mount Kosciusko”
  • Polish: “Mount Kosciuszko”
  • Polish: “Mount Kościuszko”
  • Polish: “Park Narodowy Kościuszki”
  • Portuguese: “Kosciuszko”
  • Portuguese: “Monte Kosciuszko”
  • Romanian: “Mount Kosciuszko”
  • Romanian: “Muntele Kosciuszko”
  • Romansh: “Mount Kosciuszko”
  • Russian: “Косиуско”
  • Russian: “Костюшко”
  • Russian: “Косцюшко”
  • Russian: “Пик Костюшко”
  • Scots: “Moont Kosciuszko”
  • Serbian: “Košćuško”
  • Serbian: “Кошћушко”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Mount Kosciuszko”
  • Slovak: “Kościuszkov vrch”
  • Slovak: “Mount Kosciuszko”
  • Slovenian: “Mount Kosciuszko”
  • Spanish: “Monte Kosciusko”
  • Spanish: “Monte Kosciuszko”
  • Sundanese: “Gunung Kosciuszko”
  • Swahili: “Mlima Kosciuszko”
  • Swedish: “Mount Kosciusko”
  • Swedish: “Mount Kosciuszko”
  • Swedish: “Mt. Kosciuszko”
  • Tamil: “கொஸ்கியஸ்கோ மலை”
  • Thai: “ภูเขาคอสซีอัสโก”
  • Turkish: “Kosciusko Dağı”
  • Turkish: “Kosciusko”
  • Turkish: “Kosciuszko Dağı”
  • Turkish: “Kosciuszko”
  • Turkish: “Mount Kosciusko”
  • Turkish: “Mount Kosciuszko”
  • Ukrainian: “Гора Косцюшко”
  • Ukrainian: “Костюшко”
  • Ukrainian: “Косцюшко”
  • Urdu: “کوہ کازیسکو”
  • Venetian: “Monte Kosciuszko”
  • Vietnamese: “Núi Kosciuszko”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bukid Kosciuszko”
  • Welsh: “Mount Kosciuszko”
  • Welsh: “Mynydd Kosciuszko”
  • Western Frisian: “Mount Kosciuszko”
  • Western Panjabi: “ٹلہ کازیسکو”
  • Wu Chinese: “科修斯科山”
  • Yue Chinese: “哥修斯哥山”
  • “माउंट कोज़ीओस्को”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Cootapatamba Cirque and Kosciuszko.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Rawson Pass and Etheridge Ridge.

New South Wales: Must-Visit Destinations

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