Mount Sefton

Mount Sefton (Māori: Maukatua) is a mountain in the Moorhouse Range of the Southern Alps of New Zealand, between The Footstool and Mount Brunner, just north of the Hooker Range.[1][2] It has a height of 3,157 metres (10,358 ft).[3] The Douglas River (formerly known as the Twain River) begins on Mount Sefton.[1]

An early resident, Charles French Pemberton, named the area, whilst the geologist Julius von Haast named the mountain after William Sefton Moorhouse, the second Superintendent of Canterbury Province.[2] The Māori name of the mountain is Maukatua, which translates as 'mountain of the gods'.[2]

Edward FitzGerald, with Matthias Zurbriggen as his guide, completed the first recorded climb to the summit shortly after Christmas 1894.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 Harper, Arthur Paul (1896). Pioneer Work in the Alps of New Zealand: A Record of the First Exploration of the Chief Glaciers and Ranges of the Southern Alps. T. F. Unwin. pp. 16ff. Retrieved 23 May 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 Reed, A. W. (2010). Peter Dowling, ed. Place Names of New Zealand. Rosedale, North Shore: Raupo. p. 362. ISBN 9780143204107.
  3. ↑ Fodor's See It New Zealand. Fodors Travel. 2009. pp. 203ff. ISBN 9781400003617. Retrieved 23 May 2015.
  4. ↑ Rose, John Holland (1929). The Cambridge History of the British Empire. CUP Archive. pp. 43ff. Retrieved 23 May 2015.

Coordinates: 43°41′S 170°03′E / 43.683°S 170.050°E / -43.683; 170.050

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