Mount Aspiring Parkmap
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Scale 1:160 000
ISBN: 9421005170269
Parkmaps, published by the Department of Conservation, are maps for those visiting and using New Zealand's national parks and other conservation land. These detailed maps show all major natural features, as well as tracks and huts, and have interpretative information on the map back.
Edition 5 2004
Covering the area that can take up to 19 topographical maps.
From ice-bound alps to intimate lowland forest, Mount Aspiring National park is a diverse world. Covering 355, 500 ha at the southern end of the Southern Alps, it is New Zealand's third largest national park after Fiordland and Kahurangi. Because of its size and location astride a glaciated alpine zone, Mount Aspiring is renowned for its large core of wilderness.
At the same time, the park lies invitingly close to the busy Southern Lakes tourist centres of Queenstown and Wanaka and provides them with a superb example of New Zealand mountain lands in largely unspoilt condition. In December 1990, the park was accorded World Heritage status for its natural values, forming the central part of the South-West New Zealand World Heritage Area (Te Wahipounamu).
Mount Aspiring National Park, covering about 200, 000 ha initially, was established in 1964 as New Zealand's 10th national park. The New Zealand Alpine Club played a leading role in the campaign for the park, and since then outdoor recreation and conservation organisations have successfully argued for various additions of range country and lowlands. These additions have increased the park's area by over 75 percent.
Few roads penetrate this wilderness park. The Haast Highway (SH 6) traverses the northern end for about 50km; in the south the Routeburn Road extends for 3 km into the park. Mount Aspiring, for which the park is named, is the pre-eminent peak of southern New Zealand. At 3033m, it rises like a four sided pyramid, the highest peak in the Alps outside the Mount Cook region, 125 km to the north.