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Mount Hector

Mount Hector is one of the highest peaks in the , situated in the lower of . It has a height of 1,529 metres. The peak is named after James Hector, a prominent scientist in New Zealand during the 19th century.
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  • Type: Peak with an elevation of 1,529 metres
  • Description: mountain in Tararua Range, New Zealand
  • Also known as: “Hector”

Mount Hector

Latitude
-40.95168° or 40° 57′ 6″ south
Longitude
175.28157° or 175° 16′ 54″ east
Elevation
1,529 metres (5,016 feet)
Named after
James Hector
Open location code
4VFQ27XJ+8J
Open­Street­Map ID
node 7929995912
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­peak
Geo­Names ID
2190104
Wiki­data ID
Q6921123
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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Ladin—“Mount Hector” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “Mont Hector”
  • Cebuano: “Mount Hector (bukid sa New Zealand, Wellington, lat -40,95, long 175,28)”
  • Cebuano: “Mount Hector”
  • Dutch: “Mount Hector”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جبل مونت هيكتور (نيوزيلاندا)”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جبل مونت هيكتور”
  • Hebrew: “הר הקטור”
  • Japanese: “ヘクター山 (ニュージーランド)”
  • Japanese: “ヘクター山”
  • Ladin: “Mount Hector”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Mount Hector”. Photo: Podzemnik, CC BY-SA 4.0.