. The geography of New Zealand. Historical, physical, political, and commercial . el to that of the Southern Alps. It iscompletely breached by the deep gorge of the BuUerRiver. Different parts of this range are called thePikikiruna Mountains, Aopouri Range, the LyellRange, and the Paparoa Range. There are other ranges of great importance in theSouth Island. In its northern part, the Kaikouras,of which there are two parallel ridges reaching to9,467 feet in Tapuaenuka, the highest peak, appearto be the continuation of the North Island moun-tains. The Kaikouras, though apparently isolatedridges,
. The geography of New Zealand. Historical, physical, political, and commercial . el to that of the Southern Alps. It iscompletely breached by the deep gorge of the BuUerRiver. Different parts of this range are called thePikikiruna Mountains, Aopouri Range, the LyellRange, and the Paparoa Range. There are other ranges of great importance in theSouth Island. In its northern part, the Kaikouras,of which there are two parallel ridges reaching to9,467 feet in Tapuaenuka, the highest peak, appearto be the continuation of the North Island moun-tains. The Kaikouras, though apparently isolatedridges, in reality continue on the other side of theWaiau and Hanmer Plains to Mount Ajax on themain range of the Southern Alps. In Canterbury and Otago the main Southern Alpsare connected with several mountain ridges runninggenerally north-north-east and are two very short ridges, really only MOUNTAINS OP NEW ZEALAND 109 mountain spurs, of this nature in the central alpineregion. On one of these Mount Cook is situated,and on another Mount Darwin and Mount Malte. Mount Malte Brun, 10,421 feet, with Tasman Glacier at from slope of Mount Cook, 6,000 feet. Brun. There is a much longer ridge starting atMount Tyndall, to the north of the Murchisonglacier. It passes through the Two Thumb Moun-tains, the Kirkliston Mountains, the Rough Ridge, 110 GEOGRAPHY OF NEW ZEALAND and finally the Lammermoor. Here it turns north-north-east again and forms the Lammerlaw andRock and Pillar Range. One branch from this ridgeforms the Hunters Hills. At Mount Ida it is crossedby a transverse ridge passing from Mount Strauchanon the main range to the Kakanui north-north-east to south-south-west ridgeleaves the transverse one near Lindis Pass and formsthe Dunstan ^Mountains and the Umbrella Moun-tains. Four other well defined parallel ridgesfurther to the west can also be distinguished. Themost easterly of these consists of the YoungMountains, Pisa Mountains,
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