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    Aoraki / Mount Cook is the highest mountain in New Zealand. Its height, as of 2014[update], is listed as 3,724 metres (12,218 feet). It sits in the Southern...
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    Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park is a national park located in the central-west of the South Island of New Zealand. It was established in October 1953...
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  • main-belt asteroid discovered in 1985 Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park, a National Park centred on Aoraki / Mount Cook Aoraki Mackenzie International Dark Sky...
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  • 171.24694°E / -44.39972; 171.24694 Aoraki Polytechnic was a public New Zealand tertiary education institution. Aoraki Polytechnic's main campus was based...
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    The Aoraki Mackenzie International Dark Sky Reserve is an area of 4,367 km2 (1,686 sq mi) that was designated as an International Dark Sky Reserve by the...
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    the merger of Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology (CPIT) and Aoraki Polytechnic. Ara specialises in applied tertiary training. Subject choices...
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    and Te Waipounamu ("the waters of greenstone") or Te Waka o Aoraki ("the canoe of Aoraki") for the South Island. Early European maps labelled the islands...
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    the island from north to south. They include New Zealand's highest peak, Aoraki / Mount Cook at 3,724 metres (12,218 ft). The high Kaikōura Ranges lie to...
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    completed his first major climb, reaching the summit of Mount Ollivier, near Aoraki / Mount Cook in the Southern Alps. Climbing brought new friends; Harry Ayres...
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    Reserve | DarkSky International". darksky.org. 2022-04-07. "New Zealand's Aoraki Mackenzie Named World's Largest International Dark Sky Reserve" (PDF). International...
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    River, which has its source in the Tasman and Hooker Glaciers, close to Aoraki / Mount Cook. To the west of Lake Pukaki lies the Ben Ohau mountain range...
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    Alps run approximately 500 km northeast to southwest. Its tallest peak is Aoraki / Mount Cook, the highest point in New Zealand at 3,724 metres (12,218 ft)...
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  • Aoraki was a New Zealand parliamentary electorate that existed for four parliamentary terms from 1996 to 2008. It was held by Jim Sutton of the Labour...
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  • Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) of Blacksburg, Virginia Aoraki Polytechnic, New Zealand Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology...
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    Hooker Valley Track (category Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park)
    Hooker Valley Track is the most popular short walking track within the Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park in New Zealand. At only 5 kilometres (3.1 mi)...
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    gateway for international tourists visiting the South Island attractions of Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park, Queenstown, the West Coast and Kaikōura. However...
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    New Zealand's Hooker Valley at Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park, with Hooker Glacier's terminus at Hooker Lake in the background...
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  • Teton Range, Wyoming, US Aiguille du Dru 3,754 12,316 Graian Alps, France Aoraki / Mount Cook 3,754 12,316 New Zealand – Highest point in New Zealand Pointe...
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    This provides a road link to Pleasant Point, Fairlie, Twizel, Lake Tekapo, Aoraki / Mount Cook and Queenstown. Timaru has been built on rolling hills created...
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    Mount Cook Village (category Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park)
    Mount Cook Village, officially Aoraki / Mount Cook, is located within New Zealand's Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park at the end of State Highway 80,...
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  • Obverse Obverse Reverse Watermark $5 135 × 66 mm Orange Edmund Hillary Aoraki / Mount Cook Campbell Island scene Hoiho (yellow-eyed penguin) Bulbinella...
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  • Waikato River Clutha River Shotover River Whanganui River Waitaki River Aoraki / Mount Cook One Tree Hill Mount Herbert / Te Ahu Patiki Mount Aspiring...
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    that forms the backbone of the South Island; the highest peak of which is Aoraki / Mount Cook, at 3,754 metres (12,316 ft). Earthquakes are common, though...
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    within a 10-mile (16 km) radius of Aoraki / Mount Cook. Some of these summits are mere shoulders on the ridges of Aoraki and Mount Tasman. Gordon Hasell...
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    Tūāhuriri ki Kaiapoi between Hakatere and Rakaia, and thence inland to Aoraki / Mount Cook and the Southern Alps / Kā Tiritiri o te Moana. The Ngati Huirapa...
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    Mount Tasman (category Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park)
    neighbour, Aoraki / Mount Cook. Unlike Aoraki / Mount Cook, Mount Tasman sits on the South Island's Main Divide, on the border between Aoraki / Mount Cook...
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    Tasman Glacier (category Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park)
    and 600 metres (2,000 ft) thick, and lies entirely within the borders of Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park. The glacier covers an area of 101 square kilometres...
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    altitude of 3,033 metres (9,951 ft) makes it the country's highest outside the Aoraki / Mount Cook region. Māori named it Tititea, after a chief of the Waitaha...
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    Hooker Lake (category Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park)
    is in the Hooker Valley, in the Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park in New Zealand's South Island, just south of Aoraki / Mount Cook. The geographic Hooker...
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    64°28′N 171°17′W / 64.47°N 171.29°W / 64.47; -171.29 (Bering Strait) Aoraki-Mount Cook South Island, New Zealand 3724 43°35′42″S 170°8′31″E / 43.59500°S...
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