See Also: Mount Cook National Park(encyclopedia)
Mount Cook(tourism)
Mount Cook Airline(tourism)
Mount Cook Airline flights(tourism)
Mount Cook Airline code(tourism)
Mount Aspiring National Park(encyclopedia)
Mount Kenya National Park-Natural Forest(tourism)
musher(2)(dictionary)
musher(1)(dictionary)
cook(2)(dictionary)

Mount Cook National Park (sh) and musher(2) (iou)


Mount Cook National Park (sh)




Park, western central South Island, New Zealand.

Established in 1953, it has an area of 270 sq mi (700 sq km) and shares a western boundary with Westland National Park. It extends along the crest of the Southern Alps. There are some 27 peaks higher than 10,000 ft (3,000 m) in the park, including Mount Cook, the highest point in New Zealand at 12,349 ft (3,764 m). More than one-third of the park is covered by permanent snow and glacial ice.


musher(2) (iou)



musher noun2. N. Amer. L19.
[from MUSH verb2 + -ER1.]
A person who travels through snow on foot; a driver of a dog-sledge.