Mount Kosciuszko
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Mount Kosciuszko is the highest mountain in Australia. The mountain is 2,228 m (7,310 ft) above sea level.[1] The mountain is in the south east corner of New South Wales, where it is part of the Great Dividing Range. The Indigenous Australians called the whole mountain Tar-gan-gil.[1] The first European to discover the mountain was the Polish explorer, Count Paul Strzelecki in 1840.[1] He named it Kosciuszko after the Polish patriot, Thaddeus Kosciuszko (1746 - 1817).[2]
Mount Kosciuszko is now part of the large Koscuiszko National Park.
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Southerden, Louise (6 February 2010). "Mount Kosciuszko". Mount Kosciuszko. http://www.mtkosciuszko.org.au/eng1024.htm. Retrieved 16 June 2012.
- ↑ Rygielski, Janusz (2011). "Who was Kosciuszko?". Mount Kosciuszko. http://www.mtkosciuszko.org.au/eng1024.htm. Retrieved 16 June 2012.
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