Mount Dampier

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Mount Dampier
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Aoraki (middle) and Mount Dampier (right)
Highest point
Elevation3,440 m (11,290 ft)
Prominence92 m (302 ft)
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Naming
Native nameRakiroa (Māori)
Geography
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Parent rangeSouthern Alps
Climbing
First ascentMarch 1912, by Freda Du Faur & Peter Graham

Mount Dampier (Rakiroa in Māori) is New Zealand's third highest mountain, rising to 3,440 metres (11,290 ft). It is located in the Southern Alps, between Mount Hicks and Aoraki / Mount Cook. It is often traversed by climbers en route to the North ridge of Mount Cook. Its Māori name literally means 'long sky' (rangi: sky; roa: long).[1]

The English name was originally Mount Hector, after James Hector, but in Fitzgerald's map of 1896 the peak had been renamed after William Dampier.[2]

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