What is Australia's highest mountain?

Question

On the continent of Australia.

Answer 1

Hi..
The highest mountain is:"Mount Kosciuszko" Height (m) : 2228
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The highest mountains on the Australian mainland, are in an area known as the "Snowy Mountains" in" New South Wales", part of the "Great Dividing Range".. which separates the central lowlands from the eastern highlands...
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All its mountains have been eroded over a long period of time by wind and water... Most Australian mountains have a smooth round shape, instead of being jagged as are the Rockies or Himalayas... The highest mountain, "Mount Kosciusko" (pronounced Koz-ee-os-co) is only some 2,230 m (7,316 ft) high, much lower than mountains in other continents. Three-quarters of Australia is between 180 m (591 ft) and 451 m (1,480 ft) above sea level, making it one of the flattest countries in the world...
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Mt. Kosciuszko was named by "Count Paul Strzelecki" in 1840". About the only thing right in the previous sentence is that some of the names might be pronounced correctly....
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The person after whom the mountain is named, Tadeusz Kosciuszko was both an officer in the Polish Army and a statesman... While serving as a military officer, he had to flee Poland after an unsuccessful elopement. In 1776, he joined the colonial forces in America who were fighting for independence from the British... As chief of the engineering corps, he spent two years fortifying West Point, and rescued the fledgling American Army from British advances by helping them with essential river crossings... By the end of the war, he'd reached the rank of Brigadier General in the U.S. Army and had been granted U.S. citizenship... Kosciuszko returned to Poland, and after arming the peasants, led a national uprising against the countries then occupying Poland - Prussia and Russia... He also freed the Polish peasants from their serfdom. The uprising collapsed when he was taken prisoner by the Russians, but was granted freedom in 1796. He returned to the USA, became close friends with the then Vice President Thomas Jefferson, and before leaving for France sold his estate to pay for the freedom and education of his black slaves....
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Kosciuszko is indeed the tallest mountain (2,228 metres) on the Australian mainland...
But the highest recognised Australian mountains are in the Australian Antarctic Territory - Mt. McClintock (eastern sector - 3,490 metres) and Mt. Menzies (western sector - 3,355 metres).
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However, the tallest mountain on Australian Sovereign Territory is Mt. Mawson (2,745 metres) on the Big Ben mountain complex on Heard Island... Heard Island is in the Southern Indian Ocean, about 4,000 km south-west of Perth. Australia doesn't have the technology to monitor the volcanic activity of this weather bound and remote island, but there were some very spectacular eruptions on Big Ben in February 2001...
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Kosi was an upstanding and kind fellow, with towering intelligence and integrity - and probably deserved to have a mountain named after him.

Paul Strzelecki was one of many Europeans who magically acquired the title of Count when they landed in Australia. He was certainly not the first non-Aborigine to "discover" Kosciuszko, but he was the first to name it.

Kosciuszko is indeed the tallest mountain (2,228 metres) on the Australian mainland.



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The Olgas consist of 28 fascinating dome shaped rock outcrops and are located 26 km west of Uluru, which is the second largest monolith on earth. It has great significance for our Aborigine's and there are a number of sacred sites at its base. An Aboriginal Cultural Centre is nearby....
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Some interesting facts and Statistics:
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Highest Mountain: Mainland: Mount Kosciuszco 2,229 metres. The highest point is Mawson Peak on Heard Island at 2,754 m.
Australia, is the lowest continent in the world with an average of only 330 metres. and the lowest point is Lake Eyre in South Australia at 15 m. below sea level.
The most southerly mainland point is South Point, on Wilson's Promontory south of Melbourne. South East Point in Tasmania is the most southerly point of the main continent excluding the Antarctic"...
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The longest river is the "Murray River"".. and its tributary the "Darling River", which joins it at "Wentworth".. in the south-west corner of New South Wales.... Together totalling 3,370 km. their drainage basin comprises more then 1 million square kilometres or around 14% of Australia....
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The largest state is "Western Australia"".. with an area of over 2.5 million square kilometres... The largest island is Australia itself, followed by Tasmania, but offshore the largest is Melville Island of 5,786 sq km. near Darwin...
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The smallest state is Tasmania...
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The hottest temperature recorded in Australia was 53 degrees celsius.. at Cloncurry in Queensland in 1889...
The coldest temperature recorded was at Charlottes Pass in the snowfields of the Great Dividing Range near Mt. Kosciuszko of -23 degrees celsius in 1994....
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The highest rainfall ever in Australia was 907mm. of rain at Crohamhust in Queensland on February 1893."... The highest average rainfall recorded was at Bellenden Ker in Queensland where 11,251 mm. fell in 1979....
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The driest place in Australia is Lake Eyre with an average annual rainfall of less than 125mm....
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The most extreme range of temperature".. has been recorded at White Cliffs, an opal mining centre in Western New South Wales with extremes of 57.2 degrees between below-zero winter nights and hot summer days....

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My regards!;))

Answer 2

On the mainland, Mt Kosciuszko at 2,228 metres (really a glorified hillock - I have been driven to the top before they closed the road).

The actual highest in a territory controlled by Australia is Big Ben on Heard Island at 2,745 metres.

Answer 3

The tallest mountain on Australian Sovereign Territory is Mt. Mawson (2,745 metres) on the Big Ben mountain complex on Heard Island. Heard Island is in the Southern Indian Ocean, about 4,000 km south-west of Perth...QED

Answer 4

Mount Kosciuszko

Answer 5

Mount Kosciousko

Answer 6

Mt Kosiosko

Answer 7

Ayers Rock

Answer 8

Highest Mountain in Australia
Kosciusko: 7310 feet / 2228 meters

Answer 9

Big Ben
Heard Islands
at about 2,700 mt
Indian Ocean
SW of Perth

Yup,
that's the tallest!

Answer 10

I think it is Mount Kosciuszko. (not sure if that is spelt right).

Accroding to a google search it is the highest!

Give this link a try

http://www.google.com.au/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLJ,GGLJ:2006-31,GGLJ:en&q=australia%27s+highest+mountain

Answer 11

Mount Kosciuszko (2,228 meters)