Australia summit
Mount Kosciuszko
You can see 183 km from here, looking north.
Calculating the panorama…
Drag to turn around. The relief is drawn 2.2 times taller so the ridges can be read; far ridges are paler, as in the real air.
The view
Up to 183 km away.
Calculated on the relief one degree at a time, up to 250 km, with the curvature of the Earth and the refraction of the air: what stands above the horizon from here.
Our own rating, from the relief and the climate only: open horizon (35 points), how far you see (25), sea and named peaks in view (20) and clear months (20).
- 183 kmFarthest ridgelooking north
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 23Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 2,221 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 23 peaks you can name from here
From west to east as you turn around: height, distance and direction. Each one links to its guide on Peakyas, our mountain atlas.
From the relief only: buildings, trees and haze are not in the model. On a hazy day you see much less; 250 km is the limit of our calculation.
The sun
The best sunsets are in January, in March, in May and in September.
When the sun really disappears from this viewpoint — behind the relief or into the sea — and in which direction, on the 15th of each month, in local time.
- Jansouth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset45%
- Febwestsets on an open horizon42%
- Marwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset46%
- Aprwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset45%
- Maywest-2 min before the sea-level sunset47%
- Junnorth-west-2 min before the sea-level sunset43%
- Julnorth-west-2 min before the sea-level sunset45%
- Augwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset45%
- Sepwestsets on an open horizon46%
- Octwestsets on an open horizon43%
- Novsouth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset39%
- Decsouth-westsets on an open horizon42%
- Time: when the sun goes behind the horizon you see from here.
- Minutes: how much earlier the relief hides the sun.
- %: share of clear sky that month (NASA, 2001–2020).
The highlighted months are the clearest. Golden hour starts about an hour before.
The place
Mount Kosciuszko.
Highest mountain in the mainland of the Australian continent, located on New South Wales–Victoria border
Mount Kosciuszko is a summit in Australia, 2,221 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 183 km away, looking north.
23 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Mount Bogong (1,986 m), 91 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in January, in March, in May and in September.
Get there and stay
- WIlkinson's Creek Campsitecampsite · 1.7 km · 6 within 10 km
- Albury Ski Clubplace to stay · 6.4 km · 42 within 10 km
- Cooma Snowy Mountains Airport (OOM)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 66 km in a straight lineCar hire at ABX airport (East Albury)Discover Cars · sponsored link↗
Plan the visit
A guided tour, a bed nearby, a car.
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From above
The viewpoint and its surroundings.
The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the viewpoint, with what OpenStreetMap shows nearby.
Around, in OpenStreetMap
- 4other viewpoints within 5 kmLake Cootapatamba Lookout, Kosciusko Lookout, Cootapatamba Lookout and 1 more
- 16named peaks within 5 kmMount Kosciuszko, Rams Head North, Mount Lee and 13 more
- 34cable car and funicular stations within 5 kmSnowgums Top Station, Merrits Gondola Top Station, Karels Bottom Station and 31 more
- 5marked trails within 3 kmAustralian Alps Walking Track, Main Range Walking Track, Mount Kosciuszko Summit Walk and 2 more
- 3shelters and huts within 5 kmCootapatamba Hut, Seamans Hut
- 6campsites within 10 kmWIlkinson's Creek Campsite, Moiras Flat, Birralee Bush Camp and 3 more
- 42places to stay within 10 kmAlbury Ski Club, The River Inn, Bella Vista Staff Lodge and 39 more
- car parks within 3 km
- visitor centres within 5 km
- restaurants and cafés within 3 km
Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.
In our other atlases
What you see from Mount Kosciuszko, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas73 mountains within 25 km
Darkskyas2 dark-sky places within 30 kmFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.
Photographs
The view, as people saw it.
Other viewpoints nearby.
Mount Kosciuszko
Australia
- 79Viewyas Score
- 183 kmFarthest ridge
- 23Peaks in view
- 2,221 mAltitude
The Southern Star
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- 75Viewyas Score
- 104 kmFarthest ridge
- 12Peaks in view
- 5 mAltitude
Echo Point
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- 72Viewyas Score
- 120 kmFarthest ridge
- 10Peaks in view
- 967 mAltitude
Wedding Cake Rock
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- 72Viewyas Score
- 72 kmFarthest ridge
- 6Peaks in view
- 66 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q178167) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Sun | J. Meeus, Astronomical Algorithms |
| Peaks in view | Peakyas (Wikidata, CC0) |
| Panorama and altitude | Copernicus DEM GLO-90 / GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA |
| Clouds | NASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2) |
| What is around | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Sister atlases | Peakyas, Birdyas, Darkskyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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