Mount Elie de Beaumont | |
Elevation M: | 3109 |
Elevation Ref: | [1] |
Map: | New Zealand |
Relief: | 1 |
Map Size: | 220 |
Label Position: | right |
Listing: | New Zealand #5 |
Location: | South Island, New Zealand |
Range: | Southern Alps |
Coordinates: | -43.4817°N 170.3281°W |
Mount Elie de Beaumont is a high mountain in the Southern Alps on the South Island of New Zealand and the northernmost Three-thousander of the country. It is surrounded by several glaciers like Johannes Glacier in the north, Burton Glacier to the east, Times Glacier to the west and Anna Glacier, a tributary to the Tasman Glacier, in the south. It was named by Julius von Haast after the french geologist Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont.[2]