Mount Ollivier

Mount Ollivier
Mount Ollivier is located in New Zealand
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Mount Ollivier

Mount Ollivier is a 1,933 m (6,342 ft) mountain in the Canterbury Region of New Zealand.[1] It is a peak in the Sealy Range, about 2.5 km (1.6 mi) west of Mount Cook Village. The peak is named after mountaineer Arthur Ollivier, who died in 1897.[2]

Mount Ollivier was Sir Edmund Hillary's first major climb, in 1939. After his death in 2008, there was a proposal to rename the peak Mount Hillary as a memorial, a suggestion opposed by Arthur Ollivier's family.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Place Name Detail: Mount Ollivier". New Zealand Geographic Placenames Database. Land Information New Zealand. http://www.linz.govt.nz/placenames/find-names/topographic-names-db/database/index.aspx?p=9306. Retrieved 2009-04-25. 
  2. ^ a b Booker, Jarrod (18 January 2008). "Renaming peak for Sir Ed meets resistance". New Zealand Herald. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10487471. Retrieved 2009-04-25. 

Coordinates: 43°43′32″S 170°03′52″E / 43.7256°S 170.0645°E / -43.7256; 170.0645



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