Aoraki / Mount Cook
Aoraki / Mount Cook is the highest mountain in New Zealand. Its height, as of 2014, is listed as 3,724 metres. It is situated in the Southern Alps, the mountain range that runs the length of the South Island.
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 3,724 metres
- Description: mountain in the Southern Alps of New Zealand
- Also known as: “Aoraki/Mount Cook”, “Aorangi”, “Cook Peak”, “Kuka kalns”, “Kukmonto”, “Mt Cook”, “núi Cook”, and “Аораки”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Mount Dampier and Mount Vancouver.
Mount Dampier
Peak
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Aoraki / Mount Cook
- Categories: mountain, parent peak, hill, and landform
- Location: Mackenzie District, Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-43.595° or 43° 35′ 42″ south
Longitude
170.14217° or 170° 8′ 32″ east
Elevation
3,724 metres (12,218 feet)
Named after
Open location code
4V8GC43R+XV
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Aoraki / Mount Cook” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Mount Cook”
- Arabic: “اوراكي - جبل كوك”
- Arabic: “اوراكي/جبل كوك”
- Aragonese: “Aoraki”
- Armenian: “Կուկի լեռ”
- Arpitan: “Aoraki/Mont Cook”
- Basque: “Cook mendia”
- Belarusian: “гара Кука”
- Belarusian: “Гара Кука”
- Bengali: “আওরাকি / কুক পর্বত”
- Bengali: “আওরাকি/কুক পর্বত”
- Breton: “Aoraki”
- Bulgarian: “Кук”
- Catalan: “mont Cook”
- Catalan: “Mont Cook”
- Cebuano: “Mount Cook (bukid sa New Zealand, Canterbury)”
- Cebuano: “Mount Cook”
- Chinese: “奧拉基/庫克山”
- Chinese: “庫克山”
- Croatian: “Mount Cook”
- Czech: “Mount Cook”
- Danish: “Mount Cook”
- Dutch: “Mount Cook”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل اوراكى كوك”
- Esperanto: “Aoraki”
- Estonian: “Aoraki”
- Finnish: “Mount Cook”
- French: “Aoraki / Mont Cook”
- French: “Aoraki/Mont Cook”
- Georgian: “კუკის მთა”
- German: “Aoraki”
- German: “Aoraki/Mount Cook”
- German: “Mount Cook”
- Greek: “Αοράκι/Όρος Κουκ”
- Hebrew: “הר קוק”
- Hindi: “आओराकी / कुक पर्वत”
- Hindi: “आओराकी/कुक पर्वत”
- Hungarian: “Aoraki/Mount Cook”
- Hungarian: “Mount Cook”
- Icelandic: “Mount Cook”
- Ido: “Monto Cook”
- Indonesian: “Aoraki/Gunung Cook”
- Interlingue: “Monte Cook”
- Irish: “Aoraki”
- Italian: “Aoraki/Monte Cook”
- Japanese: “クック山”
- Korean: “쿡산”
- Ladin: “Aoraki / Mount Cook”
- Ladin: “Aoraki/Mount Cook”
- Latvian: “Aoraki”
- Lithuanian: “Kuko kalnas”
- Macedonian: “Кукова Планина”
- Malay: “Gunung Aoraki”
- Maori: “Aoraki”
- Mingrelian: “კუკიშ გვალა”
- Northern Frisian: “Aoraki”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mount Cook”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Aoraki/Mount Cook”
- Norwegian: “Aoraki/Mount Cook”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Mount Cook”
- Persian: “کوه کوک”
- Polish: “Góra Cooka”
- Portuguese: “Monte Cook”
- Portuguese: “Monte Cook/Aoraki”
- Quechua: “Aoraki Urqu”
- Romanian: “Aoraki”
- Russian: “гора Кука”
- Russian: “Гора Кука”
- Scots: “Aoraki / Moont Cook”
- Scots: “Aoraki/Moont Cook”
- Serbian: “Maunt Kuk”
- Serbian: “Кук”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Mount Cook”
- Slovak: “Cookov vrch”
- Slovenian: “Aoraki/Mount Cook”
- Slovenian: “Mount Cook”
- Spanish: “monte Cook”
- Spanish: “Monte Cook”
- Swahili: “Aoraki”
- Swedish: “Aoraki/Mount Cook”
- Turkish: “Cook Dağı”
- Ukrainian: “гора Кука”
- Ukrainian: “Гора Кука”
- Urdu: “اوراکی/جبل کوک”
- Venetian: “Aoraki/Monte Cook”
- Vietnamese: “Aoraki”
- Welsh: “Aoraki”
- Western Frisian: “Mount Cook”
- Western Panjabi: “آوراکی”
- Wu Chinese: “库克山”
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Places to explore: Husky Flat and The Cove.
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Highlights: Green Saddle and Middle Peak.
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