Mount Rolleston
Mount Rolleston is a prominent peak in Arthur's Pass National Park in the South Island of New Zealand. It was named by the surveyor Arthur Dudley Dobson in 1864, who observed the peak while searching for a route through the Southern Alps to the West Coast gold fields.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Crow Glacier and Arthur’s Pass.
Arthur’s Pass
Mountain saddle
Photo: Mhp1255, Public domain.
Arthur's Pass is a mountain pass in the Southern Alps of the South Island of New Zealand. The pass sits 920 metres or 3,020 feet above sea level and marks part of the boundary between the West Coast and Canterbury regions.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Arthur’s Pass and Otira.
Arthur’s Pass
Village
Photo: Dschwen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Arthur's Pass, previously called Camping Flat then Bealey Flats, and for some time officially Arthur Pass, is a township in the Southern Alps of the South Island of New Zealand, located in the Selwyn district.
Otira
Hamlet
Photo: Podzemnik, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Otira is a small township fifteen kilometres north of Arthur's Pass in the central South Island of New Zealand. It is on the northern approach to the pass, a saddle between the Ōtira and Bealey Rivers high in the Southern Alps. Otira is situated 10 km northeast of Mount Rolleston.
Mount Rolleston
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 2,271 metres
- Description: mountain in Arthur’s Pass National Park, New Zealand
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: West Coast, South Island, New Zealand, Oceania
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Latitude
-42.91133° or 42° 54′ 41″ southLongitude
171.51225° or 171° 30′ 44″ eastElevation
2,271 metres (7,451 feet)Named after
William RollestonOpen location code
4V9H3GQ6+FWOpenStreetMap ID
node 1489965346OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peakGeoNames ID
6216103Wikidata ID
Q8533518
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Ladin—“Mount Rolleston” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Mount Rolleston”
- Chinese: “罗尔斯顿山”
- Dutch: “Mount Rolleston”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل مونت روليستون”
- French: “mont Rolleston”
- French: “Mont Rolleston”
- German: “Mount Rolleston”
- Japanese: “ロールストン山”
- Ladin: “Mount Rolleston”
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Bealey Chasm and Pegleg Flat.
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Highlights include Goldney Glacier and Waimakariri Col.
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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 Rolleston”. Photo: Podzemnik, CC BY-SA 4.0.