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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 914 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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KOSCIUSCO , the highest See also:

MOUNTAIN (0. Fr. montaigne; popular Lat. montanea, an adjectival form from the classical mons, montis, whence Eng. " mount," a form usually used along with the name of an individual mountain, e.g. Mt Everest)
MOUNTAIN, THE (La Montagne)

mountain in See also:

AUSTRALIA

Australia, in the range of the Australian See also:

ALPS

Alps, towards the See also:

south-eastern extremity of New South See also:

WALES (Cymru, Gwalia, Cambria)

Wales . Its height is 7328 ft . An adjacent See also:

PEAK, THE

peak to the south, Mueller's Peak, See also:

long considered the highest in the See also:

CONTINENT (from Lat. continere, "to hold together "; hence " connected," " continuous ")

continent, is 7 268 ft. high . A meteorological station was established on Kosciusco in 1897 .

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