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Mountain · New Zealand

Mount Awful

Elevation
1,151 m
#12,768
in the world
#126
in New Zealand
670 m
prominence

Mount Awful is a mountain in New Zealand, rising to 1,151 m, the 126th highest we list in New Zealand.

Nearest town
175 km away
Type
Mountain
GeoNames feature code MT

Where it is

Mount Awful

Mount Awful lies in New Zealand, in Otago.

Key facts

Elevation
1,151 m (3,776 ft)
Approximate elevation, from a digital elevation model
Prominence
670 m
Type
Mountain
Region
Otago
Coordinates
-44.150, 169.083

How it ranks

Among peaks in New Zealand
#126of 133
LargestSmallest
Among all listed peaks
#12,768of 14,616
LargestSmallest

Nearest peaks

Nearest peaks, by distance from this summit
PeakElevationDistance
Mount Turner1,633 m7.7 km
Mount Alba2,053 m8.2 km
Mount Franklin1,470 m9.7 km
Castor2,062 m18 km
Mount Pollux1,882 m19 km
Mount Brewster2,379 m31 km

Nearest cities

The closest places in our city dataset to Mount Awful.

Nearest cities, by distance from this summit
CityCountryPopulationDistance
TimaruNew Zealand29,300175 km
AshburtonNew Zealand21,600214 km
DunedinNew Zealand132,800222 km
InvercargillNew Zealand58,000257 km
RollestonNew Zealand34,100272 km

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Elevation and coordinates from GeoNames; prominence, isolation, range and first-ascent data from Wikidata. GeoNames publishes no date for elevation figures, so none is shown.