The Wick Mountains are a range within New Zealand's Fiordland National Park, the country's biggest national park. Their highest peak is Mount Elliot 1,990 metres (6,530 ft),[1] and this can be seen in fine weather from the Milford Track, a popular tourist walking track.
Wick Mountains
The Wick Mountains are shaded purple. This map also shows the approximate extent of the geological magma origin Darran Suite of gabbronorite and dioriticorthogneiss in red shading which composes most of the mountains.
Mount Wilmer is to the right. This picture taken in high summer 2014 also shows to the left Mount Elliot with Jervois Glacer and can be compared to another picture on this page.
Geologyedit
The Wick Mountains are predominantly composed of a biotite from volcanic diorite dated just to their north to 138 ± 2.9 Ma and with younger intusion dykes of say quartzmonzodiorite dated at 136 ± 1.9 Ma.[4] These rocks are part of the Median Tectonic Zone that separates the Western and Eastern provinces of Zealandia rocks. They cover an area of about 740 km2 (290 sq mi).[4] The mountains also have components to their southwest of orthogneiss.[5]
Climbingedit
Some of the mountains have known mountain climbing routes[6] on what has been described as "amazing diorite".[7]
The Hirere Falls on the Milford Track are on the south western extreme of the Wick Mountains. The peaks behind at up to 1,920 metres (6,300 ft) do not have official names.[1]
Clinton River Valley showing Wicks Mountains to right in view towards McKinnon Pass (Oil, John Elder Moultray about 1910, Auckland Museum).
^ abDowling, P. (ed.) (2004). ’’Reed New Zealand atlas’’. Auckland: Reed Publishing. Map 89. ISBN0 7900 0952 8
^New Zealand Gazetteer:Wick Mountains Source: Reed, A.W. & Peter Dowling, Place Names of New Zealand, 2010
^ abA Wandres; SD Weaver; D Shelley; JD Bradshaw (1998). "Diorites and associated intrusive and metamorphic rocks of the Darran Complex, Mount Underwood, Milford, southwest New Zealand". New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics. 41 (1): 1–14. doi:10.1080/00288306.1998.9514786.
^"ClimbNZ:Wick Mountains (80 routes)". Retrieved 15 March 2023.
^"ClimbNZ:Mt Moir (27 routes)". Retrieved 15 March 2023.
December 15, 2023
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