The Minarets (New Zealand)

The Minarets are two peaks of the Southern Alps approximately 180 m apart, located in Westland Tai Poutini National Park in the South Island of New Zealand. Its southeastern and northwestern peaks have heights of 3040 m and 3031 m, respectively. After the 3109 m Mount Elie de Beaumont, they are the northernmost three-thousand-metre peaks in the country and are a few kilometres away from the highest mountains in New Zealand. Most of the other three-thousand-metre peaks in the country are located in the immediate vicinity.

The first ascent was made by Tom Fyfe and Malcolm Ross in 1895.