Mount Kosciuszko

Mount Kosciuszko is the highest peak on the Australian mainland, standing 2,228 meters in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales near Jindabyne, close to the Victorian border. Polish explorer Pawel Edmund Strzelecki named it in 1840 in honor of Tadeusz Kosciuszko, a general of the Kosciuszko Uprising and the American Revolutionary War, for its resemblance to the Kosciuszko Mound in Krakow. It is counted among the Seven Summits, the highest peak on each continent, though as the easiest of the seven to climb, with established trails from Charlotte Pass and Thredbo reaching the summit in three to three and a half hours round trip. The mountain carries indigenous Ngarigo names connected to the bogong moths that once inhabited it, and a proposed dual name, Kunama Namadgi, remains contested among Aboriginal communities.