Mount Earnslaw
{{Short description|Mountain in South Island, New Zealand}}
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| photo_caption = Mount Earnslaw from Bennetts Bluff lookout
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| location = Otago Region, New Zealand
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| listing = New Zealand #15
| range = Forbes Range, Southern Alps
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Mount Earnslaw / Pikirakatahi is a {{convert|2819|m|ft|0|adj=on}} mountain in the South Island of New Zealand. It is named after Earnslaw (formerly Herneslawe) village in the parish of
Eccles, Berwickshire, hometown of the surveyor John Turnbull Thomson's father.{{Cite web|url=http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/sct/BEW/gazetteer/E.html|title = Genuki: Berwickshire Gazetteer: E, Berwickshire}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.independentmountainguides.co.nz/earnslaw.html|title = Climbing Mount Earnslaw Guided Mountaineering trips}}{{Cite web|url=https://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-Cyc04Cycl-t1-body1-d6-d2-d56.html|title = Old Colonists | NZETC}}
Mount Earnslaw is within Mount Aspiring National Park at the southern end of the Forbes Range of the Southern Alps. It is located 25 kilometres north of the settlement of Glenorchy, which lies at the northern end of Lake Wakatipu.
Mount Earnslaw and various other sites in its vicinity feature in the live-action film version of The Lord of the Rings.{{citation needed|date=March 2016}}
Climbing history
Image:Earnslaw00.jpg (1883)]]
Reverend W.S. Green had come to New Zealand to try to climb Mount Cook. In March 1882, with guides Emil Boss and Ulrich Kaufmann, he attempted Earnslaw, but transport and weather problems forced them to turn back after climbing 5,000 feet (1,500 metres).
After several attempts over a period of years, Glenorchy guide Harry Birley climbed the eastern peak of Earnslaw in 1890. He left a bent shilling in an Irish Moss bottle within a stone cairn, to prove he had reached the top.
The 10 m lower, but much more challenging West Peak, 2.5 km to the west-south-west and separated by a 200 m deep pass, was climbed in 1914 by H.F. Wright and J. Robertson.
References
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{{cite book | author = Miller, F.W.G. | title = Golden Days of Lake County
| publisher = Whitcomb and Toombes | year = 1949 | pages = 343–345}}
{{cite web | title = Glenorchy | url = http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-Cyc04Cycl-t1-body1-d7-d86.html
| publisher = THE CYCLOPEDIA OF NEW ZEALAND [OTAGO & SOUTHLAND PROVINCIAL DISTRICTS]
| accessdate = 2016-03-05}}
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- {{cite web|url=http://www.summitpost.org/parent/151587/mount-earnslaw.html|publisher=Summit Post|title=Mount Earnslaw}}
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{{Mount Aspiring National Park}}
{{Queenstown-Lakes}}
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