La Perouse (New Zealand)
{{Short description|Mountain in South Island, New Zealand}}
{{Use New Zealand English|date=April 2024}}
{{Infobox mountain
| name = La Perouse
| photo = 00 1287 Mount Cook - New Zealand Alps.jpg
| photo_caption = La Perouse (middle) and Aoraki (right)
| elevation_m = 3078
| prominence_m = 496
| map = New Zealand |relief=1
| map_caption =
| label_position = bottom
| location = South Island, New Zealand
| range = Southern Alps
| coordinates = {{coord|43|36|12|S|170|5|53|E|type:mountain_region:NZ_scale:100000|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
| range_coordinates =
| easiest_route = glacier/snow/ice climb
}}
La Perouse, originally called Mount Stokes, is a mountain in New Zealand's Southern Alps, rising to a height of {{convert|3078|m}}.
Geography
La Perouse is located in the Southern Alps of the South Island, four kilometres to the southwest Aoraki / Mount Cook.{{cite web |url=http://climbnz.org.nz/nz/si/main-divide-of-the-southern-alps/la-perouse |title=Climb NZ route database | first=Alex | last=Palman | access-date=27 August 2016 | publisher=NZ Alpine Club}} Unlike Aoraki / Mount Cook, La Perouse sits on the South Island's Main Divide, on the border between Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park and Westland Tai Poutini National Park. On the northern side, the La Perouse Glacier feeds the Cook River that flows into the Tasman Sea.{{cite web |title=NZ Topo Map |url=http://www.topomap.co.nz/NZTopoMap/nz26250/La-Perouse/West-Coast |publisher=NZ Topo Map |access-date=27 August 2016}}
Eponymy
It was originally named Mount Stokes after John Lort Stokes, who was assistant surveyor during the second voyage of HMS Beagle (1831–1836) and captain of the survey ship HMS Acheron (1848–1851). Because of the prior naming of Mount Stokes in Nelson, the mountain was renamed La Perouse in honour of the French explorer Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse (also spelt comte de La Pérouse) whose expedition foundered on Vanikoro in the Santa Cruz Islands of the Solomon Islands in 1788.{{cite book |last = Reed |first = A. W. |authorlink = Alexander Wyclif Reed |title = Place Names of New Zealand |year = 2010 |publisher = Raupo |location = Rosedale, North Shore |isbn = 9780143204107 |editor = Peter Dowling |page = 212}}
1948 rescue
La Perouse was the scene of the most arduous rescue in New Zealand's climbing history in 1948, where Ruth Adams was injured and had to be carried on a stretcher over the summit and through deep gorges to the West Coast road.{{cite web |url=https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/the-forgotten-climb/ |title=New Zealand Geographic, The Forgotten Climb | access-date=27 August 2016 | first=Shaun | last=Barnett}} She was a member in a climbing party including Harry Ayres, Edmund Hillary and Mick Sullivan.{{cite web |url= http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/mountaineering/page-8 |title=Mountaineering - Climbing faces | first=John | last=Wilson | publisher=Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand | access-date=27 August 2016 | date=14 October 2014}} The rescue was the first time that Hillary and fellow climber Norman Hardie met; they started a lifelong friendship, with Hardie having been on the board of Edmund Hillary's Himalayan Trust for 22 years.{{cite news |title=Man of the mountains |url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/christchurch-life/740159/Man-of-the-mountains |access-date=27 August 2016 |work=The Press |date=29 November 2008}}
See also
{{Portal|New Zealand}}
File:La Perouse NZ.jpg and Sefton to left)]]
References
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External links
- http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/christchurch-life/740159/Man-of-the-mountains
- https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/the-forgotten-climb/
{{Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park}}
{{Westland Tai Poutini National Park}}
{{Westland landforms}}
Category:Westland Tai Poutini National Park
Category:Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park
Category:Mountains of the Canterbury Region