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| The Mount Cook region is sometimes called the Mackenzie Country - it’s the high inland basin beneath the Southern Alps and Aoraki/Mount Cook, south west of Christchurch. At 3753m Mount Cook (its Maori name is Aoraki, meaning Cloud Piercer) is New Zealand's highest mountain. |
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It towers above a splendid cast of massive snow-clad peaks that make up the Mount Cook National Park. Nudging one side of Mount Cook is the mighty Tasman Glacier, a 30km giant and one of the longest outside the Himalayas.
Main Centres are:
Fairlie
Lake Tekapo Village
Mount Cook
Twizel
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