John Turnbull Thomson's "Map of reconnaissance Survey of the Interior Districts of Otago Province, 1857 - 1858". Image from Archives New Zealand. : Massif mistake?
John Turnbull Thomson's "Map of reconnaissance Survey of the Interior Districts of Otago Province, 1857 - 1858". Image from Archives New Zealand. : Massif mistake?
Mt Aeolus (far right) might well have been the peak that originally moved John Turnbull Thomson to coin the name ''Aspiring''. Photo by Gilbert Van Reenen. : Massif mistake?
Mt Aeolus (far right) might well have been the peak that originally moved John Turnbull Thomson to coin the name ''Aspiring''. Photo by Gilbert Van Reenen. : Massif mistake?
Mt Aspiring as we know it today. Photo by Stephen Jaquiery. : Massif mistake?
Mt Aspiring as we know it today. Photo by Stephen Jaquiery. : Massif mistake?
Gilbert van Reenen : Massif mistake?
Gilbert van Reenen : Massif mistake?
Danilo Hegg : Massif mistake?
Danilo Hegg : Massif mistake?
Massif mistake?
As Mt Aspiring National Park celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, two Otago men claim it was actually a surveyor's mistake that first put the...