Kosciuszko National Park - Kosciuszko
Address: Snowy Mountains
Kosciuszko, NSW 2642
Kosciuszko National Park with 673,524 hectares is an area of outstanding beauty with glacial lakes, limestone caves, grasslands and woodlands. In winter it hosts some of Australia's best skiing conditions, in spring and summer, the mountains are ablaze with wildflowers and crisscrossed by walking tracks, many above the tree line providing spectacular views over the roof top of Australia.
Mount Kosciuszko is the highest point in Australia at 2,228 metres. Count Paul Strzelecki, who climbed it from the western side on the 15th February 1840, named it after a Polish general who fought for the colonists in the War of Independence and led an unsuccessful revolt against the partitioning of Poland in 1794.
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Contact
- Contact Information
- www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.a...
- Snowy Mountains
Kosciuszko, NSW 2642 - Toll Free: 1300 361 967
- Phone: (02) 6450 5600
- Fax: (02) 6456 1249
- srvc@npws.gov.au
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Attractions
- Kosciuszko Express Chairlift
- Kosciuszko National Park
- Kosciuszko National Park - Charlottes Pass to Snowy River
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