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AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, OCEANIA

ULTRA-PROMINENCE PAGE

23 summits with prominence of 1,500 meters or greater


This page lists the summits in areas traditionally associated with Oceania.   Unfortunately the distinction between "Oceania" and islands associated with their neighboring continents is always a fuzzy one.   There are over one hundred island ultras that are NOT on this page.  The following text should clarify.

Pacific Ocean:   There are six island high points above 1,500m on the following list.  These are in Melanesia and Polynesia.  Papua New Guinea, properly part of Melanesia and thus Oceania, has 31 ultra-prominences that will be found on the associated page here.   The six Hawaiian ultras are on the Alaska and Hawaii page here.   Indonesia, Philippines, and Japan each merit their own lists.

Australia has three Ultras, one of which is the high point of the continent and two of which are the high points of Tasmania and Heard Island.  Australia has a separate page for P600m summits.

New Zealand has just 10 Ultras; 2 on the North Island and 8 on the South Island.  The Fjordlands of the South Island have relatively few Ultras, as most summits are only 1,500m-2,500m total elevation.  New Zealand has over 300 P600m summits, which appear on separate lists for the North Island and South Island.

One Indian Ocean island high point, the HP for Ile Kerguelen, also should be considered Oceania.   Madagascar, Reunion, and Comoro ultras have been included with Africa.    Sri Lanka and Socatra appear on their appropriate Asia lists.

The two South Atlantic islands on this list (South Georgia and Tristan da Cunha) are also associated with Oceania, while other Atlantic islands will be found on the Europe:Atlantic Islands list (for Jan Mayen, Spitsbergen, Iceland, the Canarys, and the Azores), on the Africa list (for Cabo Verde, Bioko, and São Tome) and on Greenland, Caribbean and Antarctica lists.

Compiled 2004 by Aaron Maizlish.  Notes and Sources are at bottom of the page.

Revised 5/10/2007œ
Peak Country Location Elevation
m.
Prominence
m.
Saddle
m.
Latitude
Longitude
Elev
ft.
Prom
ft.
Notes

PACIFIC ISLANDS


Mt. Popomanaseu Solomon Islands HP Guadalcanal 2,335 2,335 0
9º42'13"S
160º03'43"E
7,661 7,661 [1]
Mt. Orohena Fr. Polynesia HP Tahiti 2,241 2,241 0 17º34'00"S
149º28'00"W
7,352 7,352
Mt. Tabwemasana Vanuatu HP Espiritu Santo 1,879 1,879 0
15º21'45"S
166º45'18"E
6,165 6,165
Mauga Silisili Samoa HP Samoa 1,858 1,858 0
13º37'06"S
172º29'09"W
6,096 6,096
Mt. Veve Solomon Islands HP Kolombangara Isl. 1,768 1,768 0
07º57'00"S
157º04'30"E
5,800 5,800
Mt. Panie New Caledonia HP New Caledonia 1,628 1,628 0
20º35'18"S
164º46'15"E
5,341 5,341

AUSTRALIA


Mawson Peak (Big Ben) Australia HP Heard Isl. 2,745 2,745 0
53º06'15"S
073º31'03"E
9,006 9,006
Mt. Kosciuszko Australia HP Australia 2,228 2,228 0
36º27'21"S
148º58'51"E
7,313 7,313 [4]
Mt. Ossa Australia HP Tasmania 1,617 1,617 0
41º52'15"S
146º02'00"E
5,305 5,305

NEW ZEALAND


Mt. Cook New Zealand South Island HP 3,755 3,755 0
43º36'00"S
170º08'00"E
12,319 12,319
Ruapehu New Zealand North Island HP 2,797 2,797 0
39º17'24"S
175º33'48"E
9,176 9,176
Mt. Aspiring New Zealand
3,033 2,471 562
44º23'00"S
168º44'00"E
9,951 8,107
Mt. Taranaki (Egmont) New Zealand
2,518 2,308 210
39º17'45"S
174º03'54"E
8,260 7,572 [2]
Mt. Tutoko New Zealand
2,723 2,191 532
44º36'00"S
168º00'00"E
8,934 7,188
Tapuae-o-Ueneku New Zealand
2,884 2,021 863
41º59'45"S
173º39'45"E
9,462 6,630
Double Cone (HP The Remarkables) New Zealand
2,319 1,969 350
45º04'15"S
168º48'31"E
7,608 6,427 [2]
Manakau New Zealand
2,608 1,798 810
42º13'30"S
173º37'06"E
8,556 5,866 [2]
Mt. Taylor New Zealand
2,333 1,636 698
43º30'27"S
171º19'12"E
7,653 5,357
HP Skippers Range New Zealand
1,648 1,598 50
44º26'03"S
168º10'12"E
5,407 5,210 [2]

INDIAN OCEAN


Mt. Ross FSAT HP Kerguelen 1,850 1,850 0
49º35'32"S
69º29'45"E
6,069 6,069

ATLANTIC OCEAN


Mt. Paget South Georgia HP S. Georgia 2,934 2,934 0
54º27'00"S 36º32'00"W
9,626 9,626 [3]
Queen Mary's Peak Tristan da Cunha HP  TDC
2,060 2,060 0
37º06'40"S
12º17'18"W
6,760 6,760
Mt. Carse
South Georgia

2,330
1,720
610
54º43'00"S
36º06'00"W
7,644
5,643 [3]
 

FOOTNOTES:

All summits on this list, with the exception of 8 New Zealand summits and 1 South Georgia Summit, are island or continental highpoints, whose elevations were verified through a variety of sources.   

Australia has large amounts of topographic data online (none of which pertains to Ultra-Prominences) on the Geoscience Australia Home Page.  They also maintain a nice page on official mountain elevations.

[1] 
Popomanaseu:  The highest summit in the Solomon Islands is Popomanaseu and not Makarakomburu as widely reprinted.  The 1:50,000 topographic survey maps, SRTM, and the Solomon Islands survey department are all in agreement on this fact.   Most internet sources give Makarakomburu an elevation of 2447m, but this is based on an obsolete survey. For Makarakomburu, 3" SRTM data and 5m IFSAR data supplied by Intermap give top cells of 2282m and 2308m respectively, and the official 1:50,000 DOS map shows only a 2240m contour ring.  Makarakomburu is therefore 50-100 meters lower and has about 400 meters of prominence.  See attached map for detail.

[2] 
New Zealand summits:  All summit and saddle elevations were garnered exclusively from New Zealand Survey Dept. 1:50,000 scale topographic series.  Key saddles for Aspiring, Tutoko and Tapuae-o-Ueneku were provided as spot elevations on the maps.  Key saddles for Taranaki, Double Cone, Manakau and Skippers are interpolated from 20 meter contour intervals (i.e. prominence values are ±10 meter.)  The key saddle for Taylor is interpolated from a five meter interval.

[3]  South Georgia. 
GNIS and the Antarctica Mountaineering Chronology cite 2915m.  Summit is popularly referred to as 2934m.  Help with the most current measurements would be welcomed.

[4]  Mt. Kosciuszko:  The highpoint of Australia is 2228m.  A few years ago the number was changed on the maps and in the Australian National Gazateer to 2229m.  This article, appearing in the Australian Institute of Alpine Studies Newsletter, explained that the natural height of the mountain was unchanged and that the 2229m value actually refers to the trig point on top of a one-meter tall platform on the summit.  Thanks to Grant Hutchinson for drawing my attention to this.

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