Mount Cook Village, officially Aoraki / Mount Cook, is located within New Zealand's Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park at the end of State Highway 80, only 15 kilometres south of the summit of the country's highest mountain, also called Aoraki / Mount Cook, in the Southern Alps. Aoraki / Mount Cook is situated 9 km east of Barron Saddle.

Mount Cook National Park

Photo: Petero9, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park is a national park dominated by New Zealand's two highest mountains, Aoraki / Mount Cook and Mount Tasman. Several other high peaks of the South Island's Southern Alps are nearby.

Barron Saddle

Type: Mountain saddle with an elevation of 1,875 metres
Description: gap in New Zealand
Categories: gap and landform
Location: Mackenzie District, Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand, Oceania
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Latitude

-43.76102° or 43° 45′ 40″ south

Longitude

169.99215° or 169° 59′ 32″ east

Elevation

1,875 metres (6,152 feet)

Open location code

4V8F6XQR+HV

OpenStreetMap ID

node 6668825149

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=saddle

GeoNames ID

6209230

Wikidata ID

Q32125738

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

“Barron Saddle” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Barron Saddle”

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