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Aoraki / Mount Cook

Aoraki / Mount Cook is the highest mountain in . Its height, as of 2014, is listed as 3,724 metres. It is situated in the , the mountain range that runs the length of the .
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  • Type: Peak with an elevation of 3,724 metres
  • Description: mountain in the Southern Alps of New Zealand
  • Also known as: “Aoraki”, “Aoraki/Mount Cook”, “Aorangi”, “Cook Peak”, “Mount Cook”, and “Mt Cook”
Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mount Dampier and Mount Vancouver.

Peak
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is 's third highest mountain, rising to 3,440 metres. It is located in the , between and Aoraki / Mount Cook.

Peak
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is a peak in the Southern Alps. At 3,309 metres, it is 's fourth-highest named summit. It is an elevation on the ridge leading north from Aoraki / Mount Cook, between and the Clarke Saddle.

Peak
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is a mountain in the in on the of . The mountain is 3,198 metres high.

Aoraki / Mount Cook

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
James Cook
Open location code
4V8GC43R+XV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2625064349
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­peak
Geo­Names ID
2192136
Wiki­data ID
Q5059
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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”
  • Bengali: “আওরাকি / কুক পর্বত”
  • Bengali: “আওরাকি/কুক পর্বত”
  • Breton: “Aoraki”
  • Bulgarian: “Кук”
  • Catalan: “mont Cook”
  • Catalan: “Mont Cook”
  • Cebuano: “Aoraki/Mount 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: “Aoraki”
  • Czech: “Mount Cook”
  • Danish: “Mount Cook”
  • Dutch: “Aoraki/Mount Cook”
  • Dutch: “Mount Cook”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جبل اوراكى كوك”
  • Esperanto: “Aoraki”
  • Esperanto: “Kukmonto”
  • Esperanto: “Monto Cook”
  • 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: “Aoraki”
  • 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”
  • Latvian: “Kuka kalns”
  • Lithuanian: “Kuko kalnas”
  • Macedonian: “Кукова Планина”
  • Malay: “Gunung Aoraki”
  • Maori: “Aoraki”
  • Mingrelian: “კუკიშ გვალა”
  • 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: “Аораки”
  • 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: “Aoraki”
  • Slovenian: “Mount Cook”
  • Spanish: “Aoraki”
  • 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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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 “Aoraki / Mount Cook”. Photo: Podzemnik, CC BY-SA 4.0.