Mount Dampier
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Mount Dampier (Rakiroa in Māori) is New Zealand's third highest mountain, rising to Script error: No such module "convert".. 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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