Cook, MOUNT, the highest peak of Australasia, is one of the Southern Alps near the centre of the range, on the western side of the South Island of New Zealand. It is 12,349 feet high, is covered with perpetual snow (the snow-line being 3500 feet lower than in Switzerland), was scaled for the first time to near the summit by Mr Green in 1882. See Mannerings, With Rope and Axe in the New Zealand Alps (1891).
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 3: Catarrh to Dion, p. 453
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