La Perouse, Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park
#18 among attractions in Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park
Facts and practical information
La Perouse, originally called Mount Stokes, is a mountain in New Zealand's Southern Alps, rising to a height of 3,078 metres. ()
Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park New Zealand
La Perouse – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)
Nearby attractions include: Aoraki / Mount Cook, Southern Alps, Hooker Lake, Mount Haast.
- 2.3 miETowering mountain with trekking routes
Aoraki / Mount Cook, Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park
58 min walk • Aoraki / Mount Cook is the highest mountain in New Zealand. Its height, as of 2014, is listed as 3,724 metres. It sits in the Southern Alps, the mountain range that runs the length of the South Island.
- 2.2 miENatural attraction, Protected area
Southern Alps, Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park
57 min walk • The Southern Alps are a mountain range extending along much of the length of New Zealand's South Island, reaching its greatest elevations near the range's western side.
- 5.3 miSNatural attraction, Lake
Hooker Lake, Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park
136 min walk • Hooker Lake is a proglacial lake that started to form in the late 1970s by the recent retreat of the Hooker Glacier. It is in the Hooker Valley, in the Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park in New Zealand's South Island, just south of Aoraki / Mount Cook.
- 5 miNEMountain
Mount Haast, Westland National Park
129 min walk • Mount Haast is a mountain summit located in the Southern Alps / Kā Tiritiri o te Moana, in the Westland District of New Zealand. The mountain was named after the German-born geologist Julius von Haast by James Mackay.
- 6.1 miSWNatural attraction, Mountain
Mount Sefton, Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park
157 min walk • Mount Sefton is a mountain in the Aroarokaehe Range of the Southern Alps of New Zealand, just 12 kilometres south of Aoraki / Mount Cook. To the south lies Mount Brunner, and to the north The Footstool, both more than 400 metres shorter.
- 6.5 miSENatural attraction, Lake
Tasman Lake, Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park
166 min walk • Tasman Lake is a proglacial lake formed by the recent retreat of the Tasman Glacier in New Zealand's South Island. In the early 1970s, there were several small meltwater ponds on the Tasman Glacier. By 1990, these ponds had merged into Tasman Lake.
- 2.5 miNENatural attraction, Mountain
Mount Vancouver, Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park
65 min walk • Mount Vancouver is a peak in the Southern Alps. At 3,309 metres it is New Zealand's fourth highest named summit. It is an elevation on the ridge leading north from Aoraki / Mount Cook, between Mount Dampier and the Clarke Saddle.
- 6.7 miNEMountain
Douglas Peak, Westland National Park
172 min walk • Douglas Peak is a 3,077 metres high mountain in the Southern Alps on the South Island of New Zealand. It is located few kilometres northeast of the second highest mountain of the country, the 3,497 metres high Mount Tasman.
- 3.6 miNENature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Mount Tasman, Westland National Park
93 min walk • Mount Tasman is New Zealand's second highest mountain, rising to a height of 3,497 metres. It is located in the Southern Alps of the South Island, four kilometres to the north of its larger neighbour, Aoraki / Mount Cook.
- 1.9 miNENatural attraction, Mountain
Mount Hicks, Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park
49 min walk • Mount Hicks is a mountain in the Southern Alps in Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park on the South Island of New Zealand. The mountain is 3,216 metres high. It is above the Hooker Glacier, in the vicinity of Aoraki / Mount Cook. The mountain was first ascended in 1906. The starting point for ascents is the Empress hut.
- 5.2 miENatural feature
Haupapa / Tasman Glacier, Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park
133 min walk • Haupapa / Tasman Glacier is the largest glacier in New Zealand, and one of several large glaciers which flow south and east towards the Mackenzie Basin from the Southern Alps in New Zealand's South Island.