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| Keywords: landscape mountain outdoor mountainside hill rock mountain peak Mount Sefton (Māori: Maukatua) is a mountain in the Moorhouse Range of the Southern Alps of New Zealand, between The Footstool and Mount Brunner, just north of the Hooker Range.[1][2] It has a height of 3,157 metres (10,358 ft).[3] The Douglas River (formerly known as the Twain River) begins on Mount Sefton.[1] An early resident, Charles French Pemberton, named the area, whilst the geologist Julius von Haast named the mountain after William Sefton Moorhouse, the second Superintendent of Canterbury Province.[2] The Māori name of the mountain is Maukatua, which translates as 'mountain of the gods'. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Sefton Mount Sefton (Māori: Maukatua) is a mountain in the Moorhouse Range of the Southern Alps of New Zealand, between The Footstool and Mount Brunner, just north of the Hooker Range.[1][2] It has a height of 3,157 metres (10,358 ft).[3] The Douglas River (formerly known as the Twain River) begins on Mount Sefton.[1] An early resident, Charles French Pemberton, named the area, whilst the geologist Julius von Haast named the mountain after William Sefton Moorhouse, the second Superintendent of Canterbury Province.[2] The Māori name of the mountain is Maukatua, which translates as 'mountain of the gods'. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Sefton | ||||
