Talk:Mount Townsend (Snowy Mountains)

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Huh? Tradition to carry a rock from the bottom to the top? I XC ski in Kosciuszko NP, I am a member of a few bushwalking clubs... and never have i heard of this tradition.

Here come those precious 4 tildes that signify me! - Huh? 124.184.91.117 (talk) 01:49, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

"The names of Mount Townsend and Mount Kosciuszko were originally attached to the other mountains. Measurements of the peaks originally called by those names showed Kosciuszko to be slightly lower than its neighbour, and rather than re-educating the populace that the highest mountain was Mount Townsend, the names were transposed by the New South Wales Lands Department, so that Mount Kosciuszko was renamed Townsend and vice-versa.[2] In light of the recent tests have questionable information [3]"

It is about time this urban myth was disposed of, once and for all,   instead of being continually propagated.

The names were "originally" attached to the other mountains, were they ? Mount Kosciuszko was "originally" discovered, and named,  by "Count" Strezelcki,  in honour of his famous countryman,  and with specific reference to the similarity of his monument in Krakow.

Mount Townsend wasn't even named until about 50 years later.

In the late 19th century, there was some confusion among other surveyors and mapmakers about which was which,  and which was taller. That would be a problem with "subsequent" naming, not the "original" naming. There is room for some uncertainty about where Strezelecki himself actual went. He may have climbed Kosciuszko. He may have climbed Townsend and observed Kosciuszko from there. He may have seen it from twenty miles away and not bothered to climb it at all. He may have been mistaken about which was taller.

Go to the Snowy Mountains. And then go to Krakow. And see for yourself which mountain looks like the tumulus there. There can be no doubt about which mountain Strezelecki intended to name. The bungling colonial cartographers forty and fifty years after Strexelecki's visit did not have the opportunities of modern travel.

These mountains were not originally named,  and then the names swapped,  "to avoid re-educating the populace".

These mountains ( or, one of them ) was originally named, by its discoverer,   and then the names were swapped by someone else's mistake,   and then the mistake was realised and corrected,  and hence the names were swapped back again. Which makes the "original" name, correct.Lathamibird (talk) 00:31, 20 November 2014 (UTC)