List of mountains of New Zealand by height



The following are lists of mountains in New Zealand ordered by height. Names, heights, topographic prominence and isolation, and coordinates were extracted from the official Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) Topo50 topographic maps at the interactive topographic map of New Zealand site.

Mountains are referred to as maunga in the Māori language.

Named summits over 2,900 m
All summits over 2900 m are within the Southern Alps, a chain that forms the backbone of the South Island, and all but one (Mount Aspiring / Tititea) are within a 10 mi radius of Aoraki / Mount Cook. Some of these summits are mere shoulders on the ridges of Aoraki and Mount Tasman.

Gordon Hasell was the first person who, by 1960, had climbed all New Zealand's peaks above 10,000 feet. The achievement mentions 27 peaks and is thus counts individual peaks that may make up one mountain, e.g. Mount Haast has three individual peaks that are all above that height.

The 100 highest mountains
These are all the mountains over 2400 m with a topographic prominence (drop) of at least 300 m, closely matching those on the list of mountains of New Zealand by the New Zealand Alpine Club. Five peaks overlooked on that list are indicated with an asterisk. Of these 100 mountains, all but two — Ruapehu (Tahurangi Peak) (19th highest) and Mount Taranaki (65th highest) — are in the South Island. Tapuae-o-Uenuku, in the Kaikōura Ranges, is the highest peak outside the Southern Alps.

Over 2,000 metres

 * Te Heuheu – 2732 m- highest peak in the north of the crater rim of Mount Ruapehu
 * Mount Strauchon – 2391 m
 * Mount Bonpland – 2343 m
 * Turner Peak – 2341 m
 * Mount Franklin (Tasman) – 2340 m
 * Mount Travers – 2338 m
 * Mount Taylor – 2333 m
 * Double Cone – 2319 m
 * Mount Tūwhakarōria – 2307 m
 * Somnus – 2293 m
 * Mount Ngauruhoe – 2287 m
 * Mount Hopeless – 2278 m
 * Mount Rolleston – 2275 m
 * Mount Aurum – 2245 m
 * Faerie Queen – 2236 m
 * Mount Paske – 2216 m
 * Mount Adams – 2208 m
 * Mount Awful – 2192 m
 * Mount Hutt – 2185 m
 * Mount Franklin (Canterbury) – 2145 m
 * Mount Cloudsley – 2107 m
 * Mount Olympus – 2094 m
 * Dobson Peak – 2095 m
 * David Peaks – 2093 m
 * Mount Macfarlane – 2077 m
 * Tooth Peak – 2061 m
 * Mount Damfool – 2030 m
 * Mount Dreadful – 2030 m
 * Jane Peak – 2022 m

1,000 to 2,000 metres

 * Castle Hill Peak – 1998 m
 * Mount Tongariro – 1978 m
 * Cecil Peak – 1978 m
 * Mount Pisa – 1963 m
 * Mount Cardrona – 1936 m
 * Mount Ollivier – 1933 m
 * Benmore Peak (Benmore Range) – 1932 m (site of Benmore Peak Observatory)
 * Mount Owen – 1875 m
 * Sutherlands Peak (Benmore Range) – 1846 m
 * Totara Peak (Benmore Range) – 1822 m
 * Walter Peak – 1800 m
 * Mount Arthur – 1795 m
 * Mount Hikurangi (Gisborne District) – 1754 m (highest peak in the North Island, excluding volcanoes)
 * Ben Lomond – 1751 m
 * Mount Peel – 1743 m
 * Mount Mangaweka – 1730 m (second highest peak in the North Island, excluding volcanoes)
 * Kaweka J (Kaweka Range) – 1724 m
 * Mount Axford – 1720 m
 * Brown Peak, Sturge Island (subantarctic island) – 1705 m or 1524 m
 * Mount Winterslow – 1700 m
 * Mitre Peak – 1692 m
 * Mount Somers / Te Kiekie – 1688 m
 * Purple Hill (Lake Pearson, above Waimakariri Valley) – 1680 m
 * Mount Pisgah – 1643 m (highest peak of the Kakanui Range)
 * Roys Peak – 1578 m
 * The Mitre (Tararua Range) – 1571 m
 * Mount Hector (Tararua Range) – 1529 m
 * Angle Knob (Tararua Range) – 1510 m
 * Hauhungatahi – 1521 m
 * Mount Lyndon – 1489 m
 * Mid Dome – 1478 m
 * Mount Luxmore – 1472 m
 * Mount Holdsworth (Tararua Range) – 1470 m
 * The Cairn (Benmore Range) – 1464 m
 * Summit Peak – 1450 m (highest point of the Rock and Pillar Range)
 * Mount Arowhana – 1439 m
 * Jumbo Peak (Tararua Range) – 1405 m
 * Pouakai (Pouakai Range) – 1400 m
 * Mount Alfred – 1375 m
 * Mount Oxford – 1364 m
 * Young Island (subantarctic island) – 1340 m
 * Mount Isobel (Hanmer, South Island) – 1324 m
 * The Buscot (Benmore Range) – 1245 m
 * Buckle Island (subantarctic island) – 1239 m
 * Mount Noble – 1220 m
 * Mount Te Kinga – 1204 m
 * Mount Grono (Secretary Island) – 1196 m (highest peak in main New Zealand chain not in the North or South Island)
 * Mount Pureora – 1175 m
 * Mount Tarawera – 1111 m
 * Mount Tauhara – 1088 m
 * Mount John – 1031 m (site of Mount John University Observatory)
 * Mount Thomas – 1023 m

Under 1,000 metres

 * Mount Ross – 983 m (highest point in the Aorangi Range)
 * Mount Anglem / Hananui – 979 m (highest peak on Stewart Island/Rakiura)
 * Mount Pirongia – 959 m
 * Mount Te Aroha – 952 m (highest point in the Kaimai Range)
 * Mount Matthews – 940 m (highest peak in Rimutaka Range)
 * Mount Herbert (Te Ahu Patiki) – 920 m (highest point on Banks Peninsula)
 * Wharite Peak – 920 m
 * Queenstown Hill – 907 m
 * Maungatua – 900 m
 * Moehau – 892 m (highest point on the Coromandel Peninsula)
 * Mount Graham – 829 m
 * Putauaki (Mount Edgecumbe) – 820 m
 * Maungatautari – 797 m (site of the Maungatautari Restoration Project)
 * Te Raupua – 781 m (highest point in Northland)
 * Tutamoe – 770 m (second highest point in Northland)
 * Tākaka Hill – 760 m
 * Ngongotahā – 757 m
 * Mount Karioi – 756 m (overlooks Raglan)
 * Swampy Summit – 739 m (highest remnant of the Dunedin Volcano)
 * Mount Hauturu on Little Barrier Island – 722 m (highest point in the Auckland Region)
 * Mount Wainui – 722 m (highest peak in Akatarawa Forest)
 * Mount Pye – 720 m (highest point in The Catlins)
 * Mount McKerrow – 706 m
 * Mount Dick (highest point in the Auckland Islands, on Adams Island) – 705 m
 * Kohukohunui (highest point in the Hunua Ranges) – 688 m
 * Patuha (New Zealand) (highest point in the Kaitake Range) – 684 m
 * Mount Cargill – 680 m
 * Flagstaff (Dunedin) – 666 m
 * Mount Clime – 665 m
 * Kahurānaki – 645 m Hawkes Bay Region
 * Mount Hikurangi (Northland) – 625 m
 * Mount Hobson (highest point on Great Barrier Island) – 621 m
 * Hokonui Hills – 600 m
 * Mount Honey (Campbell Island) – 558 m
 * Mount Karangahake (Hauraki District – 544 m
 * Castle Rock in the Coromandel Range – 525 m
 * Moumoukai – 516 m (highest point in the Kermadec Islands, on Raoul Island)
 * Hawkins Hill, Wellington – 495 m
 * Te Heru o Kahukura / Sugarloaf (Christchurch) – 494 m
 * Kohinurākau (Hastings) – 490 m
 * Te Toiokawharu (highest point in the Waitākere Ranges) – 474 m
 * Saddle Hill (Dunedin) – 473 m
 * Rangituhi / Colonial Knob (Porirua, Wellington) – 468 m
 * Kakepuku (Waikato, North Island) – 449 m
 * Mount Kaukau (Wellington) – 445 m
 * Ruaotuwhenua (Waitākere Ranges, Auckland) – 440 m
 * Mount Charles – 408 m (highest point on the Otago Peninsula)
 * Mount Manaia (Whangarei) – 403 m
 * Te Mata Peak (Hastings) – 399 m
 * Signal Hill (Dunedin) – 393 m
 * Mayor Island / Tuhua – 355 m
 * Pukematekeo (Waitākere Ranges, Auckland) – 336 m
 * Whakaari / White Island – 321 m
 * Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu – 305 m
 * Te Ahumairangi – 301 m
 * Brooklyn Hill (Wellington) – 299 m
 * Maungatere Hill – 294 m (highest named point in the Chatham Islands)
 * Mangere – 286 m (highest point on Mangere Island)
 * Bluff Hill / Motupohue ("The Bluff", Bluff, Southland) – 265 m
 * Rangitoto Island – 260 m
 * Maunganui (Waiheke Island) – 231 m
 * Mount Maunganui – 230 m
 * Mount Victoria (Wellington) – 196 m
 * Maungawhau / Mount Eden (Auckland) – 196 m
 * Maungakiekie / One Tree Hill (Auckland) – 182 m
 * Paritutu (New Plymouth) – 156 m
 * Mount Wellington (Auckland) – 137 m
 * Mount Albert (Auckland) – 135 m
 * Roys Hill (Hastings) – 134 m
 * Mount Roskill (Auckland) – 110 m
 * Māngere Mountain – 107 m
 * Bluff Hill (Napier) – 101 m

Historical perspective
Prior to the introduction of the metric system in New Zealand, the mountains regarded as tall were those over 10000 ft. Lists of mountains or peaks by height have over the decades been published by the New Zealand government in its official yearbook. The 1920–21 edition was the first to contain a list of mountains and it had six of them at over 10,000 feet.

This table remained the same in the two subsequent editions until 1924, when the secretary of the New Zealand Alpine Club had provided a fuller list of 16 mountains:

In the 1931 yearbook, Torres Peak was added to that list. Andy Anderson was the first to climb all 17 mountains by late December 1950.

The 1931 list remained unchanged until the late 1950s, and was used as the starting point by mountaineer Gordon Hasell (1933–2018) to compile an amended list. Not all the mountains had been officially surveyed and Hasell added 12 new ones to the list that he considered likely to also reach the 10,000 feet mark and deleted 2 (De la Beche and The Minarets), making a total of 27 peaks. This list was published in the 1957 edition of the New Zealand Alpine Journal and stood for the next 25 years. It is shown here as published in geographical order from north-east to south-west.