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Packing Supplies to Kosciusko

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• Pixel Wrangler said:

  "The name of the mountain was formerly spelled "Mount Kosciusko," an Anglicisation; but the version "Mount Kosciuszko" was officially adopted in 1997 by the Geographical Names Board of New South Wales." --Wikipedia Size Does Matter! "Various measurements of the peak originally called by that name showed it to be slightly lower than its neighbour, Mount Townsend, and the names were thereupon transposed by the New South Wales Lands Department, so that Mount Kosciuszko still remains the name of the highest peak of Australia, and Mount Townsend ranks as second." -- Year Book Australia, 1910

• yuwan said:

  it reminds me the old time. beautiful photo!

• Iuliana said:

  Super

• covid convict said:

  trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/163799609/16798677 - this pic appeared in the Sydney Mail on 25th December, 1897...in a 'Sketcher' article titled 'Kosciusko in Spring Time', by photographer Charles Kerry...see pic on 2nd page of link...mid lhs Several other pics in the PHM's collection also appeared in the Sydney Mail's pictorial...see comments/links here www.flickr.com/photos/powerhouse_museum/3593606829/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ A similar pictorial, titled 'The Ascent of Kosciusko', appeared in the Australian Town and Country Journal on this same date...see comments/links here... www.flickr.com/photos/powerhouse_museum/3594416848/