Mount Dampier

Mount Dampier
Aoraki (middle) and Mount Dampier (right)
Highest point
Elevation	3,440 m (11,290 ft)
Prominence	92 m (302 ft)
Coordinates	43°35′S 170°8′E / 43.583°S 170.133°E / -43.583; 170.133
Naming
Native name	Rangiroa (Māori)
Geography
Mount Dampier South Island, New Zealand
Parent range	Southern Alps
Climbing
First ascent	March 1912, by Freda Du Faur & Peter Graham

Mount Dampier (Rangiroa 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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^ Reed, A. W. (2010). Peter Dowling (ed.). Place Names of New Zealand. Rosedale, North Shore: Raupo. p. 97. ISBN 9780143204107.
^ Riley, Gerald (1967). "Mount Cook National Park Place Names and their Origin". New Zealand Alpine Journal. 22: 110–133.

v t e Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park, New Zealand
Mountains	Aoraki / Mount Cook Dixon Peak Douglas Peak Glacier Peak La Perouse Lendenfeld Peak Malte Brun Mount Dampier Mount Elie de Beaumont Mount Haidinger Mount Hamilton Mount Hicks Mount Ollivier Mount Sefton Mount Tasman Mount Vancouver Silberhorn
Mountain ranges	Mount Cook Range Two Thumb Range
Glaciers	Hooker Glacier Mueller Glacier Murchison Glacier Tasman Glacier
Lakes	Blue Lake Hooker Lake Tasman Lake
Rivers	Godley River Hooker River Murchison River Tasman River
Other geographic features	Copland Pass Sealy Tarns
Settlements and buildings	The Hermitage Hotel Mount Cook Aerodrome Mount Cook Village
Walking and cycling tracks	The Alps 2 Ocean Cycle Trail Hooker Valley Track
Reserves and World Heritage Sites	Aoraki Mackenzie International Dark Sky Reserve Te Wahipounamu

v t e Landforms of Westland District, New Zealand
Alpine passes	Arthur's Pass Browning Pass / Nōti Raureka Copland Pass Haast Pass
Bays	Bruce Bay Jackson Bay
Canyons, gorges and waterfalls	Fantail Falls Gates of Haast Hokitika Gorge Otira Gorge Roaring Billy Falls Thunder Creek Falls
Glaciers	Agassiz Glacier Douglas Glacier Fox Glacier Franz Josef Glacier Garden of Eden Ice Plateau Olivine Ice Plateau Volta Glacier
Headlands	Abut Head Awarua Point Gillespies Point Knights Point
Islands	Open Bay Islands
Lakes and lagoons	Abel Lake Alpine Lake / Ata Puai Lake Ellery Lake Gault Lake Ianthe Lake Kaniere Lake Mahinapua Lake Mapourika Lake Matheson Lake Moeraki Ōkārito Lagoon Lake Paringa Saltwater Lagoon Lake Wahapo
Mountain ranges	Butler Range Southern Alps
Mountains	Mount Adams Aoraki / Mount Cook Mount Aspiring / Tititea Mount Dampier Mount Graham Mount Haast Mount Hopkins La Perouse Lendenfeld Peak Mount Rolleston Mount Sefton Silberhorn Mount Tasman Mount Vancouver Mount Whitcombe
River flats	Pleasant Flat
Rivers	Adams River Arahura River Arawhata River Balfour River Barlow River Barn River Bettne River Big Wainihinihi River Burke River Butler River Callery River Cascade River Clarke River Clearwater River Cook River / Weheka Copland River Cropp River Deception River Donald River Douglas River Drake River Duncan River Edison River Fork River Fox River Gorge River Gunn River Haast River Hacket River Hall River Hapuka River Harman River Hinatua River Hokitika River Hope River Jackson River Jerry River Kaniere River Karangarua River Kokatahi River Lambert River Landsborough River Lord River Macfarlane River Mahitahi River Jacobs River Manakaiaua River Maori River Martyr River Mikonui River Moeraki River Morse River Mueller River Mungo River Ngatau River North Barlow River Ohinemaka River Ōhinetamatea River Ōkārito River Okuru River Ōmoeroa River Oneone River Otehake River Ōtira River Ōtoko River Paringa River Perth River Poerua River Rolleston River Rotokino River Ruera River Ship Creek Smoothwater River Smyth River Stafford River Strauchon River Styx River Taipo River Taramakau River Te Rahotaiepa River Toaroha River Tōtara River Totarakaitorea River Troyte River Tuke River Turnbull River Waiatoto River Waiho River Waikūkūpa River Waipara River Waita River Waitaha River Waitangitāhuna River Waitangiroto River Wanganui River Whakaikai River Whakapohai River Whataroa River Whitcombe River Wilkinson River Willberg River Williamson River Wills River

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