Roys Peak is a mountain in New Zealand,
standing between
Wānaka
Wānaka () is a popular ski and summer resort town in the Otago region of the South Island of New Zealand. At the southern end of Lake Wānaka, it is at the start of the Clutha River/Mata-Au and is the gateway to Mount Aspiring National Park.
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and
Glendhu Bay
Glendhu Bay is a small settlement on Lake Wānaka in Otago, New Zealand. The bay has a motor camp, and is a short drive west from Wānaka, on the road to Treble Cone skifield and Mount Aspiring National Park
Mount Aspiring National Park is in t ...
. It offers a full-day's walk with views across Lake Wanaka and up to the peak of
Mount Aspiring / Tititea
Mount Aspiring / Tititea is New Zealand's 23rd-highest mountain. It is the country's highest outside the Aoraki / Mount Cook region.
Description
Set within Otago's Mount Aspiring National Park, it has a height of . Māori named it ''Tititea'', ...
. The track zigzags steeply up the side of Mount Roy through thick grass until the ridge to the summit. The peak was named in honour of the Scottish hero
Rob Roy MacGregor
Robert Roy MacGregor ( gd, Raibeart Ruadh MacGriogair; 7 March 1671 – 28 December 1734) was a Scottish outlaw, who later became a folk hero.
Early life
Rob Roy was born in the Kingdom of Scotland at Glengyle, at the head of Loch Katrine, a ...
by early settlers.
See also
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List of mountains of New Zealand by height
The following are lists of mountains in New Zealand ordered by height. Names, heights, topographic prominence and isolation, and coordinates were extracted from the official Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) Topo50 topographic maps at thint ...
References
Mountains of Otago
Queenstown-Lakes District
Southern Alps
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