The following are lists of mountains in

New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ...

ordered by height. Names, heights,

topographic prominence In topography, prominence (also referred to as autonomous height, relative height, and shoulder drop in US English, and drop or relative height in British English) measures the height of a mountain or hill's summit relative to the lowest contou ...

and isolation, and coordinates were extracted from the official

Land Information New Zealand Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) is the public service department of New Zealand charged with geographical information and surveying functions as well as handling land titles, and managing Crown land and property. The minist ...

(LINZ) Topo50 topographic maps at th
interactive topographic map of New Zealand
site. Mountains are referred to as ''maunga'' in the

Māori language Māori (), or ('the Māori language'), also known as ('the language'), is an Eastern Polynesian language spoken by the Māori people, the indigenous population of mainland New Zealand. Closely related to Cook Islands Māori, Tuamotuan, and ...

Named summits over 2,900 m

All summits over are within the

Southern Alps The Southern Alps (; officially Southern Alps / Kā Tiritiri o te Moana) is a mountain range extending along much of the length of New Zealand's South Island, reaching its greatest elevations near the range's western side. The name "Southern ...

, a chain that forms the backbone of the

South Island The South Island, also officially named , is the larger of the two major islands of New Zealand in surface area, the other being the smaller but more populous North Island. It is bordered to the north by Cook Strait, to the west by the Tasman ...

, and all but one ( Mount Aspiring) are within a radius of

Aoraki / Mount Cook Aoraki / Mount Cook is the highest mountain in New Zealand. Its height, as of 2014, is listed as . It sits in the Southern Alps, the mountain range that runs the length of the South Island. A popular tourist destination, it is also a favourite ...

. Some of these summits are mere shoulders on the ridges of Aoraki and

Mount Tasman Mount Tasman (''Horokoau'' in Māori) is New Zealand's second highest mountain, rising to a height of . It is located in the Southern Alps of the South Island, four kilometres to the north of its larger neighbour, Aoraki / Mount Cook. Unlike ...

The 100 highest mountains

These are all the mountains over with a

(drop) of at least , closely matching those on th
list of mountains of New Zealand
by the

New Zealand Alpine Club The New Zealand Alpine Club (NZAC) was founded in 1891 and is one of the oldest alpine clubs in the world. The NZAC is the national climbing organisation in New Zealand and is a member of the Union Internationale des Associations d'Alpinisme. It ...

. Five peaks overlooked on that list are indicated with an asterisk. Of these 100 mountains, all but two — Ruapehu (Tahurangi Peak) (19th highest) and Mount Taranaki / Egmont (65th highest) — are in the

Tapuae-o-Uenuku Tapuae-o-Uenuku, formerly Mount Tapuaenuku, is the highest peak in the northeast of New Zealand's South Island. The name translates from Māori as "footprint of the rainbow", though is usually regarded as being named after Chief Tapuaenuku. At ...

, in the Kaikoura Ranges, is the highest peak outside the

Other notable mountains and hills

Over 2,000 metres

* Te Heuheu – - highest peak in the north of the crater rim of Mount Ruapehu * Mount Strauchon – * Mount Bonpland – * Turner Peak – *

Mount Franklin (Tasman) Mount Franklin is a peak in the Nelson Lakes National Park in the Tasman Region of New Zealand. It is the northernmost – and highest – of New Zealand's four Mounts Franklin, located south of Lake Rotoroa. It is the highest peak in the Tasma ...

– * Mount Travers – * Mount Taylor – * Double Cone – * Mount Tūwhakarōria – *

Somnus In Roman mythology, Somnus ("sleep") is the personification of sleep. His Greek counterpart is Hypnos. Somnus resided in the underworld. According to Virgil, Somnus was the brother of Death ( Mors), and according to Ovid, Somnus had a 'thousand ...

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Mount Ngauruhoe Mount Ngāuruhoe (also spelled Ngauruhoe; Māori: ''Ngāuruhoe'') is a volcanic cone in New Zealand. It is the youngest vent in the Tongariro stratovolcano complex on the Central Plateau of the North Island and first erupted about 2,500 y ...

– * Mount Hopeless – * Mount Rolleston – * Mount Aurum – *

Faerie Queen ''The Faerie Queene'' is an English epic poem by Edmund Spenser. Books IIII were first published in 1590, then republished in 1596 together with books IVVI. ''The Faerie Queene'' is notable for its form: at over 36,000 lines and over 4,000 sta ...

– * Mount Paske – * Mount Adams – * Mount Awful – *

Mount Hutt Mount Hutt ( mi, Opuke) rises to the west of the Canterbury Plains in the South Island of New Zealand, above the braided upper reaches of the Rakaia River, and 80 kilometres west of Christchurch. Its summit is 2190 metres above sea level. The Ne ...

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Mount Franklin (Canterbury) Mount Franklin is located northeast of Arthur's Pass, and is the second tallest of the New Zealand mountains with this name. It forms part of the ridge of the Southern Alps. As such, it is located close to the border between the Canterbury and We ...

– * Mount Cloudsley – *

Mount Olympus Mount Olympus (; el, Όλυμπος, Ólympos, also , ) is the highest mountain in Greece. It is part of the Olympus massif near the Thermaic Gulf of the Aegean Sea, located in the Olympus Range on the border between Thessaly and Macedonia, be ...

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Dobson Peak Dobson may refer to: People : ''For a listing of people with the surname "Dobson", see Dobson (surname).'' Places * Dobson High School in Arizona, US * Dobson, Mississippi, a ghost town in Rankin County, Mississippi, US * Dobson, North Carolina ...

– * David Peaks – * Mount Macfarlane – * Tooth Peak – * Damfool – * Mount Dreadful – * Jane Peak –

1,000 to 2,000 metres

* Castle Hill Peak – *

Mount Tongariro Mount Tongariro (; ) is a compound volcano in the Taupō Volcanic Zone of the North Island of New Zealand. It is located to the southwest of Lake Taupō, and is the northernmost of the three active volcanoes that dominate the landscape of th ...

– * Cecil Peak – * Mount Pisa – * Mount Cardrona – * Mount Ollivier – * Benmore Peak ( Benmore Range) – (site of Benmore Peak Observatory) * Mount Owen – * Sutherlands Peak ( Benmore Range) – * Totara Peak ( Benmore Range) – * Walter Peak – * Mount Arthur – *

Mount Hikurangi (Gisborne District) Mount Hikurangi (or ''Te Ara ki Hikurangi'' in Māori) is a peak in the eastern corner of New Zealand's North Island, about north of Gisborne, and southwest of the East Cape Lighthouse. On a spur of the Raukumara Range in the Waiapu Valle ...

– (highest peak in the North Island, excluding volcanoes) *

Ben Lomond Ben Lomond (Scottish Gaelic: Beinn Laomainn, 'Beacon Mountain'), , is a mountain in the Scottish Highlands. Situated on the eastern shore of Loch Lomond, it is the most southerly of the Munros. Ben Lomond lies within the Ben Lomond National Me ...

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Mount Peel Mount Peel is a mountain located in South Canterbury, New Zealand. It consists of three peaks, Mount Peel (often referred to as Big Mt Peel), Middle Mt Peel () and Little Mt Peel/Huatekerekere (). Mt Peel is tall and is owned by the Department ...

– * Mount Mangaweka – (second highest peak in the North Island, excluding volcanoes) * Kaweka J (

Kaweka Range The Kaweka Range (also known as the ''Kaweka Ranges'') of mountains is located in inland Hawke's Bay in the eastern North Island (Te Ika-a-Māui) of New Zealand. It forms part of the mountainous spine of the North Island which extends from Welli ...

) – * Mount Axford – * Brown Peak, Sturge Island (subantarctic island) – or * Mount Winterslow – * Mitre Peak – *

Mount Somers / Te Kiekie Mount Somers / Te Kiekie is a mountain in the South Island of New Zealand, located in the foothills of the Southern Alps. At , it is prominently visible from the Canterbury Plains. The area around the mountain offers opportunities for day walks ...

– * Purple Hill (Lake Pearson, above Waimakariri Valley) – * Mount Pisgah – (highest peak of the

Kakanui Range The Kakanui Range is a range of high hills located inland from Oamaru in the South Island of New Zealand. The range forms a boundary between the valley of the Waitaki River to the north and the high plateau known as the Maniototo and the upper w ...

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Roys Peak Roys Peak is a mountain in New Zealand, standing between Wānaka and Glendhu Bay. It offers a full-day's walk with views across Lake Wanaka and up to the peak of Mount Aspiring / Tititea. The track zigzags steeply up the side of Mount Roy throug ...

– * The Mitre (

Tararua Range The Tararua Range, often referred to as the Tararua Ranges or Tararua, is one of several mountain ranges in the North Island of New Zealand. The Tararua Range runs northeast–southwest for from near Palmerston North to the upper reaches of ...

) – * Mount Hector (

) – * Angle Knob (

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Hauhungatahi Hauhungatahi is an eroded volcano at the southern end of the Taupo Volcanic Zone in New Zealand, located about WNW of Mount Ruapehu. Although relatively little-known, at Hauhungatahi is one of the highest volcanoes in New Zealand, exceeded in ...

– * Mount Lyndon – * Mid Dome – * Mount Luxmore – * Mount Holdsworth (

) – * The Cairn ( Benmore Range) – *

Summit Peak ''For the mountain in California formerly named Summit Peak, see Mount Ina Coolbrith.'' Summit Peak, elevation , sits on the Continental Divide in southern Colorado. The mountain is the highest point in the South San Juan Wilderness. See also ...

– (highest point of the

Rock and Pillar Range The Rock and Pillar Range of high hills is located in the Maniototo, an area of inland Otago, New Zealand. They are surrounded by the Taieri River, which has its source in the range, flowing out across the scroll plain at Paerau, before almost d ...

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Mount Arowhana Mount Arowhana is a 1440-metre (4724 ft) mountain that is part of the backbone of the Raukumara Range in the northeast of New Zealand's North Island. The range forms part of a line of mountains extending along the eastern side of the North I ...

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Jumbo Peak Jumbo Peak may refer to: * Jumbo Peak (Washington), Washington State, United States * Jumbo Peak, in the Tararua Range, New Zealand See also * Jumbo Mountain, Washington State, United States * Jumbo Mountain (Canada) Jumbo Mountain, sometimes ...

(

) – * Pouakai ( Pouakai Range) – *

Mount Alfred Mount Alfred is a mountain located at the Queen Reach arm and head of the Jervis Inlet within the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains in British Columbia, Canada. The mountain is the highest in the portion of the mainland between Jervis and T ...

– * Mount Oxford – *

Young Island Young Island () is the northernmost and westernmost of the three main islands in the uninhabited Balleny Islands group located in the Southern Ocean. It lies northwest of Buckle Island, some north-northeast of Belousov Point on the Antarctic ma ...

(subantarctic island) – * Mount Isobel (Hanmer, South Island) – * The Buscot ( Benmore Range) – *

Buckle Island Buckle Island is one of the three main islands in the uninhabited Balleny Islands group located in the Southern Ocean. It lies north-west of Sturge Island and south-east of Young Island, some north-north-east of Belousov Point on the Ant ...

(subantarctic island) – * Mount Noble – * Mount Te Kinga – *

Mount Grono Mount Grono () is a peak on Secretary Island, part of New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()— ...

(

Secretary Island Secretary Island () is an island in southwestern New Zealand, lying entirely within Fiordland National Park. Roughly triangular in shape, it lies between Doubtful Sound / Patea in the south and Te Awa-o-Tū / Thompson Sound in the north, with i ...

) – (highest peak in main New Zealand chain not in the North or South Island) * Mount Pureora – *

Mount Tarawera Mount Tarawera is a volcano on the North Island of New Zealand within the older but volcanically productive Ōkataina Caldera. Located 24 kilometres southeast of Rotorua, it consists of a series of rhyolitic lava domes that were fissu ...

– * Mount Tauhara – * Mount John – (site of

Mount John University Observatory University of Canterbury Mount John Observatory (UCMJO), previously known as Mt John University Observatory (MJUO), is New Zealand's premier astronomical research observatory. It is situated at ASL atop Mount John at the northern end of the ...

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Mount Thomas Mount Thomas is the fictional town featured in the long-running Australian police procedural drama ''Blue Heelers'', which ran from 1994 up until its cancelation in 2006. The program was filmed in Victorian suburbs of Werribee, Williamstown ...

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Under 1,000 metres

* Mount Ross – (highest point in the

Aorangi Range The Aorangi Range (also known as the Haurangi Range) is a mountain range on the North Island of New Zealand. It is located in the Wairarapa region, extending more than 20 kilometres (12 miles) north from Cape Palliser Cape Palliser is a promon ...

) * Mount Anglem – (highest peak on

Stewart Island/Rakiura Stewart Island ( mi, Rakiura, ' glowing skies', officially Stewart Island / Rakiura) is New Zealand's third-largest island, located south of the South Island, across the Foveaux Strait. It is a roughly triangular island with a total land ar ...

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Mount Pirongia Mount Pirongia is an extinct stratovolcano located in the Waikato region of New Zealand's North Island. It rises to 959 metres and is the highest peak in the Waikato region. It was active in the late Pliocene and early Pleistocene times. ...

– * Mount Te Aroha – (highest point in the

Kaimai Range The Kaimai Range (sometimes referred to as the ''Kaimai Ranges'') is a mountain range in the North Island of New Zealand. It is part of a series of ranges, with the Coromandel Range to the north and the Mamaku Ranges to the south. The Kaimai R ...

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Mount Matthews Mount Matthews is the highest peak in the Remutaka Range to the east of Wellington, New Zealand. Mt Matthews reaches a height of 940 metres and although not special on that account, it has significance in regard to its distinctive aspect as seen ...

– (highest peak in

Rimutaka Range The Remutaka Range (spelled Rimutaka Range before 2017) is the southernmost range of a mountain chain in the lower North Island of New Zealand. The chain continues north into the Tararua, then Ruahine Ranges, running parallel with the east co ...

) * Mount Herbert (Te Ahu Patiki) – (highest point on

Banks Peninsula Banks Peninsula is a peninsula of volcanic origin on the east coast of the South Island of New Zealand. It has an area of approximately and encompasses two large harbours and many smaller bays and coves. The South Island's largest cit ...

) * Wharite Peak – *

Queenstown Hill Queenstown Hill, also known by its Māori name of Te Tapu-nui (mountain of intense sacredness), is a small mountain near Queenstown, New Zealand in the South Island. The lower levels of the hill contain housing especially near Queenstown, Fra ...

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Maungatua Maungatua, known also as Maukaatua is a prominent ridge in the Taieri Plains in Otago, New Zealand. It rises 895 metres above the floodplain of the Taieri River, directly to the west of Dunedin's airport at Momona. It can be clearly seen from m ...

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Moehau In New Zealand folklore, the moehau (also called the maeroero) is a creature said to dwell in the Coromandel- Moehau ranges of New Zealand's North Island. Some Māori people suggest that the creature is a descendant of the maero, but another expl ...

– (highest point on the

Coromandel Peninsula The Coromandel Peninsula ( mi, Te Tara-O-Te-Ika-A-Māui) on the North Island of New Zealand extends north from the western end of the Bay of Plenty, forming a natural barrier protecting the Hauraki Gulf and the Firth of Thames in the we ...

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Mount Graham Mount Graham (called in Nnee biyati' (Western Apache) Dził Nchaa Sí'an - ′Big Seated Mountain′) is a mountain in Graham County, Arizona, United States, approximately northeast of Tucson. The mountain reaches in height. It is the highes ...

– * Mount Edgecumbe (Putauaki) – *

Maungatautari Maungatautari is a mountain, rural community, and ecological area near Cambridge in the Waikato region in New Zealand's central North Island. The New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage gives a translation of "mountain of the upright ...

– (site of the

Maungatautari Restoration Project Maungatautari is a mountain, rural community, and ecological area near Cambridge in the Waikato region in New Zealand's central North Island. The New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage gives a translation of "mountain of the upright ...

) * Te Raupua – (highest point in Northland) * Tutamoe – (second highest point in Northland) * Tākaka Hill – *

Mount Ngongotahā Mount is often used as part of the name of specific mountains, e.g. Mount Everest. Mount or Mounts may also refer to: Places * Mount, Cornwall, a village in Warleggan parish, England * Mount, Perranzabuloe, a hamlet in Perranzabuloe parish, C ...

– * Mount Karioi – (overlooks Raglan, New Zealand, Raglan) *Swampy Summit – (highest remnant of the Dunedin Volcano) *Mount Hauturu on Little Barrier Island – (highest point in the Auckland Region) *Mount Wainui – (highest peak in Akatarawa Forest) *Mount Pye (New Zealand), Mount Pye – (highest point in The Catlins) *Mount McKerrow – *Mount Dick (highest point in the Auckland Islands, on Adams Island, New Zealand, Adams Island) – *Kohukohunui (highest point in the Hunua Ranges) – *Patuha (New Zealand) (highest point in the Kaitake Range) – *Mount Cargill – *Flagstaff, Otago, Flagstaff (Dunedin) – *Mount Clime – *Kahuranaki – Hawkes Bay Region *Mount Hikurangi (Northland) – *Mount Hobson, Great Barrier Island, Mount Hobson (highest point on Great Barrier Island) – *Hokonui Hills – *Mount Honey (Campbell Island, New Zealand, Campbell Island) – *Mount Karangahake (Hauraki District – *Castle Rock, Waikato, Castle Rock in the Coromandel Range – *Moumoukai – (highest point in the Kermadec Islands, on Raoul Island) *Hawkins Hill, Wellington – *Te Heru o Kahukura / Sugarloaf (Christchurch) – *Kohinurākau (Hastings) – *Te Toiokawharu (highest point in the Waitākere Ranges) – *Saddle Hill (New Zealand), Saddle Hill (Dunedin) – *Rangituhi / Colonial Knob (Porirua, Wellington) – *Kakepuku (Waikato, North Island) – *Mount Kaukau (Wellington) – *Ruaotuwhenua (Waitākere Ranges, Auckland) – *Mount Charles (New Zealand), Mount Charles – (highest point on the Otago Peninsula) *Mount Manaia (Whangarei) – *Te Mata Peak (Hastings) – *Signal Hill (New Zealand), Signal Hill (Dunedin) – *Mayor Island / Tuhua – *Pukematekeo (Waitākere Ranges, Auckland) – *Whakaari / White Island – *Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu – *Te Ahumairangi – *Brooklyn Hill (Wellington) – *Maungatere Hill – (highest named point in the Chatham Islands)An unnamed point to the southwest of Maungatere Hill rises to . *Mangere, Mangere Island, Mangere – (highest point on Mangere Island) *Bluff Hill / Motupohue ("The Bluff", Bluff, New Zealand, Bluff, Southland) – *Rangitoto Island – *Maunganui (Waiheke Island) - *Mount Maunganui (mountain), Mount Maunganui – *Mount Victoria, Wellington – *Maungawhau, Mount Eden (Auckland) – *One Tree Hill (New Zealand), One Tree Hill (Auckland) – *Paritutu (New Plymouth) – *Mount Wellington, Auckland, Mount Wellington (Auckland) – *Ōwairaka / Mount Albert, Mount Albert (Auckland) – *Roys Hill (Hastings) – *Mount Roskill (Auckland) – *Mangere Mountain – *Bluff Hill, Hawke's Bay, Bluff Hill (Napier) –

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