Mount Kosciusko.

Scarce, c.19th hand coloured engraved view of Mount Kosciusko, Australia’s tallest mountain.

It was identified and named in March 1840, by Polish explorer and scientist Paweł Edmund de Strzelecki. He named it after the Polish patriot Tadeusz Kosciuszko because the peak’s shape reminded him of the Kosciuszko Mound in Krakow.

References:
Ferguson, J. A. Bibliography of Australia Volumes 1-8, Canberra 1976 18617.

Collections:
State Library Victoria: SLTF 919.4 W 68 A
State Library New South Wales: Call Number: DSM/Q980.1/W
State Library South Australia: 994T W739 b
National Library Australia: Bib ID 760447