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The Southern Alps, is 650-kilometre's long and rises abruptly along the west coast of the South Island and only reaches the east coast at Kaikoura. The highest peak in this chain is Mt Cook, which measures 3,684 meters (12,283 feet). Sir Edmund Hillary gained his mountaineering experience on Mt Cook, before becoming the first man to climb the world's highest mountain, Mount Everest. New Zealand also contains some deeply indented fiords along the south west coastline, and give the country some of its most spectacular scenery.
The North Island's highest peak is Mt Ruapehu which is 2,797 metres or 9,175 feet high. This mountain is a volcano, and last erupted in 1995 and 1996. Mt Ruapehu is also the location for the best skiing in the North Island. Most of New Zealand's ski fields are located in the South Island however.
New Zealand has 24 peaks above 3000 metres. They are as follows:
- Aoraki/Mount Cook - 3,755 m (12,319 ft)
- Mount Tasman - 3498 m (11,476 ft)
- Mount Dampier - 3440 m (11,286 ft)
- Mount Vancouver - 3309 m
- Mount Silberhorn - 3279 m (10,758 ft)
- Mount Malte-Brun - 3198 m
- Mount Hicks - 3194 m (10,502 ft)
- Mount Lendenfeld - 3194 m (10,502 ft)
- Mount Graham
- Mount Torres - 3163 m (10,377 ft)
- Mount Sefton - 3157 m (10,358 ft)
- Mount Teichelmann - 3160 m (10,367 ft)
- Mount Haast - 3138 m (10,295 ft)
- Mount Elie de Beaumont - 3109 m (10,200 ft)
- La Perouse - 3079 m (10,102 ft)
- Douglas Peak - 3077 m
- Mount Haidinger - 3066 m (10, 059 ft)
- Mount Magellan
- Mount Malaspina
- The Minarets - 3065 m (10,056 ft)
- Mount Aspiring/Tititea - 3,033 m (9,951 ft) [2]
- Mount Hamilton - 3022 m (9915 ft)
- Mount Dixon
- Glacier Peak - 3007 m (9865 ft)
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